Posted on 05/26/2017 4:23:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March,the Japanese were brutal. The bombs ended the War and saved the lives of countless Allied Forces.
Those Japanese have some nerve. Have they declared Pearl Harbor, an OFFENSIVE action, a war crime? Maybe they have, but I’ve never heard about it.
The invasion of Okinawa alone killed more Japanese civilians than both bombs. By every credible estimate, the bombs saved millions of Japanese civilians. The Japanese government was training even women and children to fight with sharp sticks. An invasion would have been a bloodbath of unimaginable proportions for the Japanese, the Japanese government was engineering it to be so.
These people are ignorant and stupid.
731.
Off by 50!
Anyone who visits San Francisco should visit the museum of Japanese war crimes against the Chinese, on Treasure Island.
I could only stomach 2 thirds before I quit.
Japan had developed a process to denude rice of all nutrients, and planned to use that technology to starve to death every person in Australia after the war.
Never! Don’t make us do it again.
Soon as the Japanese admit that Pearl Harbor was a war crime and apologize for it.
And it's other atrocities.
Japanese War Crimes
http://www.pacificwar.org.au/JapWarCrimes/Cross-section_JapWarCrimes.html
Suddenly. TRUMP has to declare...
And Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, RMN, Ford, Jimmah, Reagan, 41, Willie Jeff, 44, & Hussain got a pass?
What kind of war crimes would have been committed had an actual invasion occurred.
LeMay’s firebombing campaign killed greater numbers than the the two bombs combined! And the
USAAF was fully prepared to burn Japan to the ground of necessary.
Remember, that fire bombs were the only effective bomb that the B-29 could employ because the wind patterns over Japan were far different than the wind patterns over Europe making high altitude bombing completely inaccurate. To inflict the most damage with this inaccuracy taken into account LeMay lowered the level of altitude thereby submitting B-29 bombers to other hazards during bombing runs, and since conventional bombs were always off target and these targets of military munitions and supply were not being hit, it was decided that firebombs would be the most effective since many Japanese cities and towns were almost entirely made of wood. So the firebomb was deployed as the most effective tool for the B-29 campaign.. and was used regularly... and was going to be scaled up in case Japan did not surrender after the only two atomic bombs in the arsenal were dropped. There were no more atomic bombs made because the nuclear material needed, could only be processed in quantity at an extremely slow rate during that time in the atomic programs history.
I visited the site of the 2nd bomb in Nagasaki. After they determined that up to a million military personnel could be killed or wounded during an invasion of Japan, the sensible thing to do was to end the war quickly and the best way to do that is with the bomb. They had a good show on TNT (Manhattan) about the making of the first atomic weapons.
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