Chapter 507 Political Propaganda

After staring at the chart for a long time, Nimitz had an idea in his mind. He returned to his desk, took out a piece of white paper, and the golden pen began to write quickly on the white paper. A sea battle that severely tested the Chinese Navy began to decide from this moment!

On April 9, MacArthur, who was sunk in front of the submarine No. 098, vented all his anger on the heads of the Japanese devils in the Philippines. //《》.com》//The huge fleet of hundreds of ships landed in Wright Bay under the cover of artillery and aircraft. After careful preparation, the US military finally landed in the Philippines.

In order to vent his anger, MacArthur ordered the ships escorted by the Navy to carry out multiple rounds of saturated shelling on the landing ground, and the super-caliber naval guns took turns to bombard the beachhead and the fortifications built by the Japanese devils over and over again.

Many fortifications became deep pits after shelling. Not only did no Japanese devils survive, but even the most surviving cockroaches could not survive. In the words of a gunner, it was shelling that turned this land into the least valuable land.

In addition to naval artillery shelling, various types of aircraft taken off on the US aircraft carrier also tried their best to repeatedly bomb and strafuse the Japanese artillery positions and barracks in the rear, and the three armies and navy and air forces made their debut on this small beach.

Under such powerful firepower, the landing operations of the American soldiers went extremely smoothly. Even the mines buried by the Japanese on the beach were detonated under such saturated shelling.

One of the few casualties was that some unlucky guys were not properly moved when they landed, causing spraining feet or other minor injuries. Such an easy battle made the American soldiers not only happy, but also made MacArthur feel much more comfortable.

He wore a new military uniform in khaki, sunglasses, five-star general hat, wades over the sea water above his thighs, wades ashore, and pouts his chin and holds his head up in a proud manner!

After getting ashore, he spoke in a deep tone, and tears in his eyes to the military reporters who had just taken the photo, which caused a sensation in the United States: "The people of the Philippines, when I left here, I swore that I would come back. Now, I have freedom and hope for peace. I, five-star general of the US Army, Douglas MacArthur, is back!"

News of the US military landing on Leight Island in Leight Bay quickly spread throughout the world.

Although the military significance of the US military landing has not yet been revealed, its political and propaganda significance is quite great.

China has not formed an alliance with Germany so far, and it has also seized Japan in the Asian region. However, in the propaganda of Western powers, the image of the Chinese is linked to evil countries such as Germany, Italy and Japan. The war between China and Japan is also promoted by them as a war of dog-biting dogs.

In a word, don’t make your image better. Political opposition is to slander and smear each other. China has also said a lot of bad things about the US imperialists.

Therefore, in the war between the Allies and the Axis of Evil, the propaganda media, which have not found any brilliant highlights, were particularly attentive to the political significance that the US military landing could all be reflected. They tried their best to advocate this a historic turning point. It was not only a re-landing, but also a sign of turning point for the Allies to defeat the Axis of Evil.

In the headlines of Western newspapers, from this day on, the chariots of the Allies will gradually crush every inch of the land occupied by the Axis of Evil, bring peace, freedom and democracy to these enslaved and ruled countries, and also vow to fight to Tokyo and Nanjing, and save the invaders who are blinded by the guaranteed rule.

In these propaganda reports, MacArthur, a general who loves to show off and speaks loudly, became the focus of the capture of the news media. Most news media know that the five-star general likes to pose in front of various cameras.

I even like to say some bold words in front of the microphone. These are what readers love to listen to. So since one likes to speak and the other likes to listen, if the journalists don’t know how to use it, they don’t have to mess in this industry anymore.&*.《》.com is the fastest update＊＊

MacArthur was in a good mood and cooperated with these reporters in the next few days after successfully logging in, and he also carefully chose the place to be interviewed.

I have to say that MacArthur is quite proficient in how to show off and promote himself in high profile. Most of the places he chose are on the main roads where various logging troops marched, so that the photographers can easily have a very shocking background when photographing him.

The huge landing fleet was scattered in a row on the background behind the main MacArthur as a distance set off, while the middle scene was the landing troops, tanks, armored vehicles, and baggage vehicles, carrying infantry to pass through the side. Even if the weather was not beautiful, a little dark and cloudy, the planes flying by from time to time made up for the gap in the sky and covered the gloomy sky.

Judging from the composition of the picture, it not only promotes MacArthur's personal majesty, but also promotes the huge national strength of the United States in disguise. It is a very perfect photo no matter how you look at it.

These photos have also been unanimously recognized by Chinese journalists. From the perspective of the shooting technology, these photos can be regarded as classics. The five-star general in the photo also looks very energetic against various backgrounds.

However, in China, most of these photos are used for negative teaching materials. Look, this is the end of bragging. Let’s brag. Now the more you brag, the more you lose face after being defeated!

Not only did there be photos, MacArthur also spoke to the journalist and made a Caesar-style statement that is very famous in world military history: "As far as I know, the US President ordered me to break through the Japanese defense line and let us symbolize democracy and freedom of the star and stripe flags inserted into every inch of land occupied by the Axis of Evil, one of the main targets is the Philippines."

"Before that. I left here, and I said at the time that I would come back, and now I have done it, my historical commitment is fulfilled! I brought my army, I have my commitment, back to the Philippine land with 17 million devout Christians!"

These photos and speeches of MacArthur did play a very good role. After being crazyly promoted by the American news media, MacArthur's speeches and speeches were injected with a new wave of stimulant into the United States.

The same is true even for the Philippines, which is still ruled by the Japanese army. The sentence "I want to go back" that MacArthur said when he fled the Philippines was lost, was widely promoted by Philippine anti-war organizations in various forms. It has become almost household name and has become the spiritual food for the Philippine people to resist the Japanese fascist struggle.

For a time, MacArthur's glorious image swept across the United States, and even surpassed the candidates of various parties who were preparing for the election. Although these opposition candidates also knew that they could not stop Roosevelt from continuing to be re-election, this did not mean that they would let Roosevelt go so well. It was also a good thing to disgust this cripple.

These people's tricks are easy to succeed. Facing the overwhelming publicity that is more fierce than Roosevelt, although Roosevelt did not express anything, it was obvious that his staff were unwilling to do so.

They called various media outlets, asking them to reduce their coverage of MacArthur. Although doing so is not conducive to war propaganda. But these staff members don’t care about that. Your news media has your own abilities. If you don’t want this hero, you can create another hero. In short, don’t let this person have a more popular reputation than the president!!

Because MacArthur's limelight is not only more popular than President Roosevelt, but before that, his tricks also made Roosevelt and some people feel unhappy. Before landing in Wright Bay, Roosevelt and MacArthur had some dirty tricks.

It was a few months ago that Pearl Harbor Pier was still under restoration. Roosevelt, who had just accepted the Democratic nomination for the fourth presidential campaign, slowly approached Pearl Harbor Pier on the USS Baltimore heavy cruiser.

A senior American general wearing dazzling white military uniform appeared on the dock, lined up with the sound of flutes, drums and trumpets, walked up to the springboard and paid tribute to President Roosevelt in the captain's cabin. What disappointed Roosevelt was that MacArthur was not found among the senior generals who came to welcome him.

At this moment, a striking scene appeared: a red high-end convertible car parked on the dock amid the sharp alarm of the escort motorcycle. MacArthur, who jumped from the back seat, was wearing a mortar military trousers and a brown bomber jacket, and wearing a "marshal's hat" specially awarded by the Philippine president, and walked onto the springboard in amid the cheers of people.

This outfit was so eye-catching among the US Navy officers and soldiers of Pearl Harbor who were ordered to wear white uniforms that General Lexi, an old friend of MacArthur who accompanied Roosevelt to Honolulu as the Presidential Chief of Staff, asked him quietly: "Douglas, why don't you wear clothes suitable for this occasion?"

"Hey!" MacArthur replied in a pun, "You have never been to our place, the weather is so cold there!"

The next day, MacArthur and Nimitz accompanied the president to inspect the troops in a red five-seat caucus car by the local fire brigade. Along the way, MacArthur fully demonstrated his talent for speaking, talked about his visit with Roosevelt, and squeezed into the back seat, and Nimitz, who was sandwiched between the president and MacArthur, was on the side.

In the evening of the same day, the President Zuodong held a banquet in his residence, a beautiful house facing Waikiki Beach. After the meal, Roosevelt, MacArthur, Lesch, and Nimitz came to the living room with a large Pacific map. MacArthur understood that the real "strike" of his trip to Pearl Harbor began.

Because President Roosevelt hopes to explain that the purpose of the meeting is to "determine the next phase of the action plan for the Pacific War." The president raised his bamboo stick and pointed to Mindanao on the map - an island that everyone agreed to recover.

But everyone agreed, but MacArthur disagreed. MacArthur fled from the Philippines from Wright Bay that year, so he naturally wanted to find the place from Wright Bay, a place that shamed him. So MacArthur said: "Mr. President, Wright Bay, only Wright Bay is my goal, and there is no other place besides that."

But Nimitz, who represented the Navy's opinions, obviously did not agree with this plan. He was the first to bring out the plan of Admiral Jin to attack Mindanao. In order to illustrate this plan, Nimitz, who was prepared, took out various maps, plans, manuscripts, various statistical tables and other visual things he carried with him.

This surprised the empty-handed MacArthur. According to Admiral Jin's plan, MacArthur should establish a powerful combat base on Mindanao to weaken the Japanese air and army power in the Philippines, but the rest of the Philippines should bypass it.

Next, it was MacArthur's turn to speak. He wanted to bulge his tongue and pull Roosevelt to his side. As the Allied soldiers were struggling through various islands, he ordered his staff to draw up a plan called "Reynold". The plan listed the Allied forces' occupation and control of the Japanese momentum.

He captured the Philippines in one go and used it as a springboard for the final attack on Japan. Since before coming to Pearl Harbor, Marshall did not tell him clearly what the topic of the meeting was. MacArthur did not carry a large amount of maps and information like Nimitz, but the main views and content of the "Reynolds" plan were clearly remembered.

"You can't leave more than 17 million devout Filipino Christians to the Japanese devils." MacArthur first convinced Roosevelt from a political perspective. He knew that the president was much more interested in political issues than military issues, especially since Roosevelt had just accepted the Democratic nomination and was preparing for the fourth presidential campaign in American history.

He stressed: "Mr. President, if American public opinion condemns you at that time, it makes sense."

MacArthur went on to say that leaving the Philippines behind would also cause strong reactions in the minds of the people of the Far East. They would believe in the propaganda of the Japanese devils and insisted that the Americans would not shed their own blood to save their Eastern friends.

He also talked about the more than 4,700 American prisoners of war detained on Luzon, and said that if Mindanao was attacked in the south, it would give the Japanese army occupying the entire Philippines more time to massacre, which would make future wars more detrimental to the American people. Therefore, he strongly demanded to advance from the central part of the Philippines, that is, after landing in the Gulf of Leyte, to accelerate the liberation of the entire Philippines.

Although the content of the final meeting was artificially blocked and concealed, Roosevelt finally agreed to MacArthur's plan. However, those who were interested found that everyone left this beautiful house had different expressions. MacArthur's expression showed a sense of pride, while Nimitz and other military generals had expressionless expressions, while some politicians felt a little disgusting and uncomfortable as if they had eaten a fly.

Even Roosevelt, who smiled calmly and confidently, had a little angry expression. Although he could not obtain more information and materials, Western journalists who were good at reasoning and fabricating things with the wonderful expressions of several people were able to describe a lot of news and behind-the-scenes based on this little thing.

Now the fact that the US military finally landed in Wright Bay was proven in disguise a few months later, but these American news reports were transferred from various channels to an intelligence analysis agency in Nanning, China. Here, a special person would analyze word by word to find the various intelligence information they wanted.

This kind of work is a seemingly simple but actually quite cumbersome and complicated task. Those ambiguous and more speculative news reports are only used as inference information to analyze, but more importantly, they are looking for various information sent back in the code language of intelligence workers who are still in the United States.

This information may be a supply and demand information mixed in, or a missing person notice, or more likely a few completely inconspicuous various messaging messages in the cracks of the report.

Although the lengths of each message vary, if you want to convert from Chinese to English carrier and then restore it from the other side of the ocean to a word-of-the-line original text, just how to hide these writing tricks has a very particular set of knowledge.

Moreover, each sending is sent using a different template. Once there is a problem with the template, this information transmission system will unexpectedly have problems in the United States.

"Section Chief, this is the last three issues of the Washington Post. The above formula has been applied three times in a row without any changes, which means that there is something wrong with one of our workstations there!" Several newspapers and intelligence information interpreted from the newspapers were sent to the desk of the intelligence department head.

"Is it a captured or a temporary error?" The section chief gently pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose and asked in a panic.

"If it's a mistake, then the third time should be modified. So we believe that our group of people was dug up and controlled."

"Very good, start the second plan and just act like we don't know this, let it continue to be a mole."

MacArthur's landing in Wright Bay was vigorous and high-profile publicity, but the other person's landing in Australia seemed very low-key - after all, on the battlefield in Australia, the US military suffered a small setback.

The failed troops do not have much value to promote. Even if they have a large number of press releases and pictures sent back to the news newspaper, based on the tone of the glorious propaganda of the American War, this will damage the image of the Americans and have a bad impact on war mobilization.

Therefore, the Americans only publicized the Chinese invasion of Australia in high profile, but did not report more on the war. At least before winning, there was no good report!

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