ICYMI: Naval Heritage Sites of Australia
Next time you find yourself down under, bring Pacific History Guide with you and let us know what you've found! Our goal with this website is to get it into the port briefs and liberty plans of our fellow servicemembers, so they can spend a little less time seeing the same old bars and tourist traps and a little more time discovering history.
Tony Boccia
27 minutes ago
Book Review: Five eyewitness accounts from the Pacific War
What follows here is less a book review than an annotated bibliography; in my studies of the Imperial Japanese Navy I found that there are hundreds of secondary sources (many of them excellent), but the primary source data, particularly in English, can be harder to find. At the same time, Western sources can lose sight of the primary subject matter and cloud the historiography with implicit (and sometimes explicit) bias.
Tony Boccia
Oct 10
Kanrin Maru Memorial - San Francisco
San Francisco's Lincoln Park, situated on the northwest of the peninsula, is home to several memorials and monuments. Among these are military fortifications, a Holocaust Memorial, and a marker for the end of the Lincoln Highway. Situated among these landmarks, not far fron a statue of El Cid, is the Kanrin Maru Memorial. This place marks a seminal event in pacific history; the first time a Japanese ship made landfall in the United States, in 1860.
Tony Boccia
Oct 2