RE: Historical events turn into movies
June 30, 2023 at 9:45 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2023 at 9:46 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 29, 2023 at 11:43 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Hindsightium is much more precious than hooplaium, at least if one has a higher regard for the truth then for the rousing hoopla. That’s why those who care for the truth adjust spectacular wartime claims of kills with what the actual enemy losses were after the enemy’s archives have become accessible.
It's useless in this case because you have no mechanism for giving any American at all any intel on the Japanese fuel status, which is what your "analysis" is based upon. You'tr criticizing them for not knowing something they had no way to know. That's obviously vapid.
Quote:There were many other instances on both sides where vastly outmatched forces fought just as courageously, for stakes just as high, and having had no reason to believe the enemy would back off.
No one has made the claim that this action wass unique, which renders your complaint here a strawman.
Quote: What initially set this apart was the perception that their courage was crowned was almost unbelievable success.
No, what sets this apart is the nobility of charging into certain death in the course of doing one's duty.
Quote:Yet hindsightium showed the success was not truly the result of their courage. It was the natural course of the events given kurita’s views and situation of his fleet.
Again. I've already acknowledged there's no way Sho-1 was going to succeed. What commands awe is not their bravery, not the victory.
You've never served in the military, have you?
