All I can say is, “Thank God for the atomic bomb and Harry Truman, Democrat though he was.”
Dropping the bomb(s) saved 1mm US casualties, and about 10mm Japanese.
Dropping the bomb(s) saved 1mm US casualties, and about 10mm Japanese.
MEGA DITTOS to that!The man who was to become my father had finally been drafted(March,1945).He was(as were all others)”Infantry Replacement”.Had Truman not dropped the nukes,he was going to invade the islands of Japan.He hardly knew one end of an M1 from the other.He wnt on to become a very famous musician and I was born on May 8,1950(VE-Day +5-years0.