The Last Bomb (ca 1945) 4 of 4

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The Last Bomb was a 1945 propaganda film mainly concerning the conventional phase of the bombing of Japan in 1945.
The film begins by describing the taking off points in Saipan, Guam, and Tinian, remarking how they have changed since American occupation. General Curtis LeMay is shown planning a daylight raid on Japan's industrial areas.
A bomber squadron of B-29s then assembles and the audience rides with them through a space of ocean as wide as the US from Mexico to Canada, special attention being given to the island Iwo Jima, which is midway through the journey. The film then proceeds to the actual bombing of Japan, showing one of the B-29s' encounters with Japanese planes, and the destruction leveled on Tokyo by the B-29s' payload and subsequent strafing.
When the bombers return to base, the hazards of war are assessed, particularly the problems associated with landing the large planes, which could sometimes be fatal.
At the very end some color footage of the mushroom cloud at Hiroshima is shown, the narrator telling us that it saves thousands of American lives by preventing an invasion of Japan.

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[randy95023]

Millions of Chinese and Phillipino civilians were killed, raped and otherwise tortured by sadistic Japanese soldiers. These were not simply "casualties of war", they were calculated and pointless acts of cruelty. We should have turned the "emporer" Hirohito over to the citizens of Nanking so that true justice could have been meted out to him. Many people defend Hirohito as being helpless against the Military rulers of Japan, but that's simply not true. He did nothing at all to stop the war...

[1236bigcat]

It's amazing how the 'propagandists' of today shift the blame to the vanquishers of tyranical and racist WW2 Japan as lead by their Sun God Emperor family. Japanese Unit 731 was a covert bio/chemical research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook 1000s of lethal human experiments in WW2 not not unlike the Nazis.

Yet America's air power gets blamed as bad guys. The Emperor of Japan is still an Emperor, a disgrace, for which no justice is done by such blind critics.

[sk8r1446]

USA kicked ass all around, but you gotta give it to the Japs: they did pretty good. They lost, but they were very tenacious

[4348456]

The 315th Bomb Wing used Vernam Field,Jamaica, to train some of its planes for this mission over Japan. I would like to see those footage.Kennedysingh60@yahoo.c­om 

[glenjacinto]

LOL @ 0:03 -0:04 reaction! hahahaha!!

[ChernobylPizza]

1236bigcat there's no reason both sides can't be "bad guys"

You can see clearly in the video of the bombing that it isn't a precise strike - whole sections of urban life are carpet bombed and no one in the US air force or government gave a damn who was living there. The Japanese population paid the price for the imperialistic and racist decisions of their leaders. The American civilian population never paid such a violent price for the USA's imperialism or racism

[yinchashe]

serve all japs right!

[lukebccb]

@0Zolrender0: AH YES.... a LITTLE CHILD that hasn't a clue about the horror of World War Two.

So tell us LITTLE CHILD " what can YOU as a true "historian" of "facts" tell us of the HORRIFIC acts of the Japanese Imperial Army - THAT IS NOW AKNOWLEDGED AS EQUAL..... IF NOT WORSE IN GENOCIDE AS THE NAZIS - that us "know nothings" are so "ignorant about"?????

HINT: LEARN FACTS NOT "oh but I heard about"......

[LIONDEFLANDRE]

@Kali1050 The mistake is that nobody had A and H bombs to destroy Americans : they slaughtered nearly completely the natives

[Kali1050]

@Seleukos

Dumb ass. Do you also believe in fairies and green men from mars.

If the Yanks had not dropped the two bombs, the sons of nippons bitches would have kept fighting and slaughtering untold thousands of American and other allied soldiers, sailors and airmen.

The one mistake the Americans made, was that they did not have enough A bombs & H bombs ready to erase Japan from the face of the earth.

[miamanuelmarizapablo]

@randy95023 and until now Japan is still denying their atrocities in the Philippines, 90 percent of Manila was destroyed ...the 17 million population of the philippines inthe 1940's was reduced to more or less 15 million.. w million filipinos died with 120,000 civilians in Manila alone, after the liberation the capital was declared the 2nd most devastated city after warsaw. Manila then was rich and multi culture.

[jamieg1tube]

@0Zolrender0 What an idiot. "Almost irrefutable"? How can something be "almost irrefutable"? It either is or isn't. Glad we didn't have 2 depend on you and your generation to get us through the second world war. Moron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!