1944-10-25

First large-scale special attack deployment

SamarFirst large-scale special attack deployment is a military mobilization record around Samar, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Other events in this phase

Japanese Imperial Home Front163
  1. Schoolchildren evacuation intensifies
  2. Women’s volunteer labor ordinance
  3. Okinawa civilian mobilization intensifies
  4. First large-scale special attack deploymentCurrent record
  5. First major B-29 raid on Tokyo
  6. B-29 raids on Tokyo begin
  7. Compulsory urban evacuation
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Wartime Position

the defeat-endgame when homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics converged

First large-scale special attack deployment is a military mobilization record around Samar, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Samar clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

USS St. Lo explosion off Samar, 25 October 1944 and Wikimedia Commons · USS St. Lo explosion off Samar, 25 October 1944 provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

USS St. Lo explosion off Samar, 25 October 1944Visual recordUSS St. Lo explosion off Samar, 25 October 1944A 25 October 1944 photograph of USS St. Lo exploding during the Battle off Samar, anchoring the first large-scale deployment of Japanese special-attack tactics. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “First large-scale special attack deployment.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · USS St. Lo explosion off Samar, 25 October 1944Open source