Chapter 607: Propaganda
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After all, the latest propaganda work on the US military side is not complicated, and it will soon be carried out with the efficiency of the US military...... This era Americans are different from modern Americans, modern Americans are used to living a pampered life, and life is lazy, so they have lost the original diligence.
Americans of this era developed in the aftermath of the Great Depression (the economic crisis of 1929 to 1933...... It's like a person who is poor and scared suddenly has something to eat, and then he can make more money and more food, and he is developing and improving every day, so everyone sees hope and is working hard, and there will be a completely different state of mind.
This kind of psychological state is somewhat like modern China, the older generation was poor and afraid in the sixties and seventies, and there was a sense of crisis in their hearts, and now when the whole country is on the right track and enters the period of great development, although life is good, this psychological sense of crisis still exists, so everyone is desperately trying to make money......
At this time, American society also had this kind of industriousness, just like the veterans of the expeditionary force said in their memoirs, in their impression, Americans are very punctual and serious...... There is a ten-minute break between work, and they just look at the watch to rest, and when the time is up, they voluntarily extinguish their cigarettes and return to work.
This kind of work attitude is only a little unimaginable for Americans today.
The fastest to get ready is the horn...... This thing is not in the Army, the US Army has only some small speakers, a little farther away to use a telephone or walkie-talkie, this can be said to be a sequelae of good communication equipment, to use it can not find a high-power speaker to shout!
However, the fact that the army does not have does not mean that the navy does not have ...... It is usually necessary to shout between warships or between warships and fishing boats, so high-power horns are necessary, and several of them are dismantled and transported to Okinawa Island with several generators, and they are quickly arranged.
Geiger prepared 60 Okinawan people in this first batch.
Six loudspeakers were prepared, and it was planned that ten Okinawan people would be assigned to each loudspeaker to take turns shouting in the direction of the Japanese army, and of course, the object of this shouting was not the Japanese army, but the Okinawan people.
The people of Okinawa are willing to do the same.
One is that they do receive preferential treatment in the U.S. military.
One is that the conditions for opening the cover are also very tempting, shouting and shouting that you will give a box of compressed biscuits a day...... Oh my God, this box of compressed biscuits is enough for a dozen people to eat for a day, and the Japanese can eat enough for 30 people.
On the other hand, these Okinawans also have relatives and friends living in areas controlled by the Japanese army, and they do not want their relatives to be deceived by the Japanese army again......
Most of these Okinawans were taken in by the US military from the surrounding islands they had captured, and they knew very well that the Japanese army's deception of them was not just a deception, and that the Japanese army would force the Okinawan people to commit suicide and martyrdom before the US military captured their positions, and would massacre the Okinawan people, and even drive the Okinawan people to the front to serve as cannon fodder to block the bullets of the US troops.
Of course, many Okinawans committed suicide because they believed the lies of the Japanese army and thought that they would be mistreated if they were captured by the American army...... This is another tragic scenario.
Of course, the surviving Okinawans did not want their compatriots to be deceived by the Japanese and then embark on this road, so they shouted very hard through the loudspeakers, and the shouting words were still full of tears and emotion, and although the American soldiers around them could not understand it, their expressions were so moved that they could not do it.
But then it turned out that the horn was not enough at all...... Because the Japanese soldiers would shoot at the horns, five of the six horns were blown up just two hours after they went up.
However, this was also a minor problem, and as soon as Turner gave the order, he asked several warships to dismantle the horns and send them over, and at the same time urgently dispatched a batch of high-power horns from the direction of the United States, and at the same time sent reconnaissance planes and bombers to patrol the skies over Okinawa......
After a few times like this, the Japanese army was scared, because they knew that if they continued to fight like this, they were actually exchanging artillery for horns, although it would also consume some of the shells of the Americans, but the Americans were not short of shells! That's pointless...... No matter how strong the defense line is, it can block bullets and shells, but the sound can't be stopped.
As a result, the Japanese army soon stopped firing artillery, and they could only continue to threaten and deceive the people of Okinawa, saying that these were all captured Okinawan people who said so under the threat of American ghost animals.
But the people of Okinawa are not stupid, they can also hear whether the voice in the loudspeaker carries fear or emotion, and many things said on the loudspeaker are in line with the Japanese army, and at the same time, the Japanese army will be able to do it...... Then the question arises, since it is believed that the Japanese army is also a dead end in the end, why not choose to believe what is said in the loudspeaker?
As a result, the people of Okinawa and even the Okinawans who had been drafted into the Japanese army began to get upset.
Two days later, the situation was even more different, as the distribution of leaflets began two days later...... It is good to have air supremacy, and the C47 flies over the island of Okinawa, and the leaflets can be scattered wherever they want.
If it was an ordinary leaflet, it might not be very lethal, but these leaflets were carried with food, and the people of Okinawa had long been starving because of the exploitation of the Japanese army, especially in wartime...... Before the US attack the Japanese army, the Japanese army looted almost all the food of the Okinawan people, and many Okinawan people could only survive the day by eating wild grass and wild vegetables.
And that's just scratching the surface.
The 2nd Independent Battalion then began to operate again, with two companies assigned to carry out the task of attacking the Japanese supply depot or headquarters, and the other company to carry out the task of separating the Japanese army from the people of Okinawa......
In fact, there is no strict line between these companies when performing their tasks, because several companies are dividing and sneaking up on the Japanese army at the same time.
As for the differentiation method, the extremely poor students divide it into two levels: propaganda and discord.
Needless to say, propaganda went in with a few educated Okinawans and showed up to his fellow countrymen...... This is more convincing than a loudspeaker or a leaflet.
The discord was that the soldiers disguised themselves as Okinawan civilians when they attacked the Japanese army, making the Japanese army think that some Okinawan civilians were "bewitched" and began to rebel.