Word: atomize
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Shooting War begins with never-before-seen outtakes from John Ford's Hollywood re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and ends with the actual footage of the annihilation of Nagasaki by a U.S. atom bomb on Aug. 9, 1945. What makes the images so immediate, however, is the harrowing commentary from some of the 23 combat cameramen interviewed for the film. "I came to view these cameramen as they view other servicemen--as heroes of the quotidian," says Schickel. "They were guys doing their jobs without thought of glory or fame. They remain...
...brief: unlike the relentlessly pro-Allied cinematic morale boosters made by Ford and others at the time, Shooting War also shows an Australian infantryman using a flamethrower on a screaming Japanese soldier in Borneo, as well as Japanese orphans shaking uncontrollably from radiation sickness after the U.S. dropped the atom bomb...
...octogenarian is as matter-of-fact as a fried egg as he tells how he led the secret 1,800-man team that was responsible for delivering the first atom bomb to its target. Tibbets' tone can seem unnervingly detached from the immensity of his deed. "The seat slapped me on the ass" is how he recalls the moment when the five-ton bomb left the plane...
...Jima's numbers are appalling. Practically all the defenders were annihilated or committed suicide. The Marines suffered some 20,000 casualties, including nearly 6,800 dead. That is one-third of all the leathernecks killed in the entire war. Were it not for the atom bomb, tens of thousands of Americans and their Allies would have died during the planned invasion of Japan. If that seems too remote, think of it this way: Bradley, Greene and perhaps even you, reader, might not have been born...
...Cold War was ubiquitous. We were testing our briefly-Communist exclusive atom bomb in Bikini. The Soviets took over Eastern Europe and Communists tried to take France, Greece and the Dardanelles. Containment began. Some of us heard the announcement of the Marshall Plan at Commencement in 1947. Supporters of an accommodation with Stalin collided with opponents in many student organizations...