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Hiroshima justified? (was Enola Gay: Burnt flesh and other
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SNIP Good Points
If the Chinese, U.K. and U.S. had just rolled over and allowed Japan to do as she willed those children might be alive. Can you say the same about the children in Japanese occupied territory? Think of Nanking and the cities Japan bombed. Not to mention the fact that most uneducated people overlook, an actual invasion of Japan by US forces (which would have happened had they not capitulated after the A-Bomb strikes, or had we not had the A-Bomb) would have let to far more casualties for the Japanese than those suffered at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not to mention the thousands of US troops that would have been killed. Seems all these people that attempt to fault the US for using the bomb either can't see these common sense facts, or choose to ignore them. Just the old footage of thousands of Japanese women and children training to fight US forces with spears in the event of invasion should tell anyone that going into Japan would have been far worse for both sides than the option that was taken. |
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"Slapshot" wrote in message news:83CFb.18497$a44.4239@okepread04... Just the old footage of thousands of Japanese women and children training to fight US forces with spears in the event of invasion should tell anyone that going into Japan would have been far worse for both sides than the option that was taken. In Okinawa around 1/3 of the civilian population were killed during the fighting. Total Japanese and Okinawan casualties have been estimated at 130,000 military and 142,000 Civilian That level of conflict on the Japanese Home Islands would produce a casualty count that would make the death toll from Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem like a minor event. Keith |
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So let me get this straight; in order to clear a country of a despotism, you have to try to annihilate at least two cities full of thousands of civilians? That's a pretty good statement of the situation as it faced Truman and his advisors. All things considered, they decided that it was the best and least bloody option, and they accepted it. Happily it worked. Note that Hiroshima in addition to its civilians contained the headquarters of the Second Group Army, which in contemporary American terms would be called a Command. It was responsible for southern Honshu and Kyushu. So if the Americans and British Commonwealth troops had to make their landing on November 1, it would have been against an army that had lost its entire headquarters staff. all the best -- Dan Ford email: see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com |
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Dropping bombs on their fleet was easier said than done. Check out the
mighty B17. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/i...01/f003725.jpg Such an impressive thing, could of been dropped on one of their fleets (soldiers not civilians.) Then when there was no one to report back, they would of been convinced that the recording was real. Rem that saying, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Richard |
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