Don't know where you heard that but AFAIK Banzai charges were held in all of those battles you list except Okinawa. There were several at Iwo Jima including a failed attempt to recapture Suribachi.

But for every Banzai charge there were more suicides, often in groups by Japanese soldiers who still had the means to resist. Militarily that is a waste of resources.

I agree that it would have been incredibly costly in any case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai_charge

Thought this topic was European theatre not Pacific :hmm2:

Sorry. We'll leave you guys to your bar fight.

By the way, it's maestro.

It might have been the largest but it most certainly wasn't the last:

Iwo Jima Feb/Mar 1945
http://m1pencil.wordpress.com/2010/0...rge-aftermath/

Corregidor Feb 1945
http://www.thedropzone.org/pacific/calhoun.html

in the whole battle for Atlantic :haha:

So you say that the successfull channel dash wasn't somewhat a miserable event to Royal Navy ? :)

Jimbuna, what was that about #46 ?

Failed to understand the question, sorry :)

No problem....Churchill lost power to a Labour government straight after the war and because of the politics that evolved at the time the VE parade in 1946 was missing one important ally from the war....Free Poland.

Russia and Yugoslavia weren't their either but that was to be expected.

Many believe had Churchill still been in power at the time, he would have ignored the stance taken by Stalin and the Poles would have been in attendance.

Well, without the Uboats there wouldn't have been a Battle for the Atlantic! :har: However, one has to remember that aside from two or three peaks, once the convoy system had gotten its act together, and technology advanced enough to allow long range aircraft escort, the uboats became less and less effective. They missed their opportunities due to a lack in numbers at critical times. If Doenitz had had his three hundred uboats at the outbreak of war, then perhaps things could have been a bit different, but instead resources were pumped into making battlecruisers that had minimal impact on the war.

Not particularly, it was war, sometimes the enemy does things you don't expect them to. In the short term it was a bit embarrassing, but in the long term it was actually good fortune, because it took them out of the Battle for the Atlantic and put them in a completely useless theatre of operations.
Even the German Naval staff called the Channel Dash a 'tactical victory but a strategic defeat'.

Out of curiosity, where are you from? :hmmm:

Very true. The battle of the Bulge was a great example of that. The Germans achieved surprise in that battle precisely because attacking in that place at that time was such an obviously bad idea that nobody expected them to do it.