(01) Victory at Sea: "Rings Around Rabaul" 1 of 3

[johngsteel]

The media today has no national pride, but it has only a political idolitry that drives it. I agree with Nazgul001.

[DWol001]

It may be me, but I think the writers of the narrator's script are slanted against the Japanese more so than the Germans. Granted this series came out in what 1952/53? Would be interesting to see how the series would look like if it were produced today.

[Nazgul001]

It wouldn't...NBC will never do a show like this ever again. In any form.

[Tebok73509]

Probably because its based on the Naval Battles of the war and the U.S navy was much more involved in the battles of Pacific theatre then it was in the Atlantic.

[kempaku982]

Well racial hatred against the Japanese was ecouraged.. not so much against the Germans.

[dustinphan]

Kempaku982

Who attacked and slaughtered more than 2,000 American without provocation first? Japan or Germany? And who shot and bayoneted thousands of defenseless American prisoners during the famous death march? After all these and you expect Americans not to hate Japanese during WW2??

[EvilFingers]

@dustinphan

Youre forgetting the Fact that the United States forced the Japanese Hand to start a War with US, when Congress and FDR placed Embargoes of Goods against Japan and for their Inavsion and Occupation of China since 1938.

[AttyCPA1]

@EvilFingers The "Embargoes" DID show US unwillingness to allow Japan to continue or expand their subjugation of Asia to the Japanese war-mongering, facist rule. But your comment is rather like a thief saying that he was justified in shooting the cop because the cop would not continue to allow him to steal. The Japanese set up sytematic rape of the resources, women (eg. see "comfort women"), and more generally the people of the areas that they conquered. "Embargoes" were justified.

[ModellMeister]

@dustinphan who killed over 6 million people because they were Jews or Gypsies? Who shot 3 million Russian prisoners and over 120 american POWs?