Sunday - August 10, 2008

Devastation of Pearl Harbour revenge attacks revealed in BBC project .

Devastation of Pearl Harbour revenge attacks revealed in BBC project 2,000 feet below Pacific
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:21 PM on 10th August 2008

Hollywood duo Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck portrayed the American desire to avenge the infamous Pearl Harbour bombings playing two US pilots in Michael Bay’s hit 2001 epic.

But, the true devastation of the revenge attacks on Japanese forces in 1944 has been captured in one of the most ambitious underwater projects ever undertaken.

Operation Hailstorm was two years in the making - but on February 17, 1944, American forces blitzed the Chuuk Islands, in the south western region of the Pacific Ocean, sinking 70 Japanese ships, 270 aircraft and killing close to 3,000 people - though the official death toll has never been confirmed.

A Japanese tank on the sunken deck of the the San Francisco Maru TX
A 30-strong team join forces to uncover the truth behind American revenge attacks on Japanese forces

(OH GREAT. WHAT’S THIS? ANOTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY?  THEY WANT TO WHAT EXACTLY?  “UNCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND AMERICAN “REVENGE” ATTACKS ON JAPANESE FORCES.  THE TRUTH YOU STUPID IDIOT, IS WE WERE AT WAR!  LIKE, PPL KILLING EACH OTHER AND SINKING SHIPS AND SOLDIERS GIVING OTHER SOLDIERS BOO-BOOS YOU DUMB S*!#!!!
AM I BEING OVERLY SENSITIVE HERE?  WHO THE HELL WRITES THEIR CAPTIONS?  THEY MAKE IT SOUND LIKE WE DID SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY. GOSH, OUR GUYS SUNK A JAP FLEET.  OH HECK. I AM SORRY.  I MISSED IT AND IT WAS RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME ALL THE TIME.
THE PERSON OR PERSONS DOING THIS MAYBE THINK AMERICA SHOULD SIMPLY HAVE ISSUED ‘ASBOS’ TO THE JAPANESE FLEET. WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT?)

And commissioned by the BBCs Natural History Unit, a 30 strong team of divers, deep sea biologists and under water cameraman explored remotest depths of the Pacific to unravel some of the secrets behind the America’s revenge attacks.

‘We were pushing the boundaries, spending extra long periods as a visitor in an alien element’, presenter-explorer Kate Humble told the Sunday Mirror.

‘I’m not a brave person and I was nervous because every dive has its risks’.

Series producer Dale Templar said: “It was a true voyage of discovery.

‘Most of the sites we explored had never been dived before.

‘The expedition undertook some of the deepest and most dangerous diving ever attempted by a TV crew.

‘But one of the most awe-inspiring sights was the graveyard of the Japanese fleet.

‘There were just so many ghosts down there.’

Pacific Abyss will be shown in three hour-long specials starting next Sunday on BBC1 at 8pm.

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yeah well, wife tells me I need to make allowances for the ppl who write this caption stuff.  she says they’re young and have little education as they’re only college grads, the victims of the new education here in uk.  says I cuss too much. guess so. pisses me off anyway!  they could have worded it better without making it appear like we’d committed some war crime. grumble-grumble

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