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About Tanaka Memorial

Please check out the entry of "Tanaka, Giichi" of Encyclopaedia of Britannica, The Columbia Encyclopedia, and so on.

They say Tanaka Memorial "has been shown to be a forgery", "proven to be a forgery", and so on.Kadzuwo 22:47, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

"the seven films"

There are eight films listed. The Negro Soldier was the last added, so I guess it wasn't actually one of the originals? --Kiand 16:49, 7 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have never heard of "The Negro Soldier." I bought a boxed set of these, which contained seven films. Desegregation is never mentioned in the seven, and I know that the army was not desegregated until 1948, after the war was over.

"The Negro Soldier" was a 1944 War Department film encouraging African-Americans to enlist. It is unrelated to the "Why We Fight" series.- mobo85

The Internet Archive has 8 Why We Fight films available for download here: http://www.archive.org/details/cinemocracy. They also have 5 other related films from other directors. -- Hoosemon (talk) 11:56, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Missed essential subjects

The article includes the word "propaganda" 15 times, in the body and from the sources. However, the purpose of the films as described by Capra, Chief of Staff Marshall, and most of the other sources involved with the creation, making, and distribution of the films never used that word. Nor are their statements cited anywhere. They generally and consistently used terms "war training films" and "war information films." In fact, the stated purposes for the films, according to them, was to "counter" the hundreds of real propaganda films created by the Axis powers after WWI. Is there some need for balance in the use of the more subjective purposes, verses the objective impressions that the article focuses on, including the first sentence? --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 22:07, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]