From: "weary"
Date: 1/6/2004 12:25 AM Central Standard Time
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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"weary" wrote:

"Chad Irby" wrote:

"weary" wrote:

Its clear that the people were the real target.

Yeah, the military people.

Then why did the targetting demand that the target must be
in a large urban atrea?

Because pretty much every major unbombed military target in Japan at the
time was *in* a large urban area.

Then why insisit on it? However you are wrong. The Target
Committee meeting that produced that requirement was held
10-11 May 1945, at which time the bombing campaign was still
in its relatively early stages.


That was before anyone in the system even knew about the atom bombs.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired