90,000 Japanese killed
600,000+ American servicemen saved 1,000,000+ Japanese civilians saved
Posted on 08/06/2008 7:08:42 AM PDT by PurpleMan
This week marks the 63rd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the beginning of the end of World War 2. As is usually the case every year we have the stories of those who attack the incident as a ‘war crime’. These historical revisionists miss (or ignore) the fact that they are looking back with hindsight and applying modern attitudes to historical times.
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I thought, “Good, so am I...I hope no one forces us to use them again.”
I thought, “Good, so am I...I hope no one forces us to use them again.”
A shallow and stupid argument.
Lots of responsible voices, including senior members of the US military, regarded the bombings as a war crime at the time.
That bomb saved a lot of lives. It was a happy day indeed for those troops scheduled to invade Japan.
90,000 Japanese killed
600,000+ American servicemen saved 1,000,000+ Japanese civilians saved
looking back with hindsight and applying modern attitudes to historical times.
“A shallow and stupid argument.”
Actually, that somthing that is continually done by historian filled with guilt for what their ancestory thought was the proper action decades and centuries before.
By your reasoning the founding fathers committed crimes against humanity by not outlawing slavery.
Like mine, for instance. My father, a Marine who barely survived the fighting on Okinawa was supposed to be part of the first wave of the invasion of Japan. Macarthur's staff estimated 100% casualties for the first wave. Thank you Harry Truman.
The death toll on the Asian mainland at that time was running around 100k/month. Shortening the war saved the lives of untold numbers of Chinese, Burmese, etc.
Thank you President Truman and General Tibbets.
Without those two bombs, there is no doubt the Japanese would have fought on until the last Jap soldier was dead.
In that respect, we also saved countless JAPANESE lives, a point that few seem to grasp.
And Horishima is such a modern-looking city today...
They’re having their little protests here in Oak Ridge today. Fortunately, when I go to work, I go in the opposite direction of the protests.
didnt more people die from the firebombing of Japan than in the 2 nuke hits?
War is hell...too bad the Japanese started one with us.
Cumulatively yes. Over 100,000 died in a single raid on Tokyo. The death toll from Hiroshima and Nagasaki has always been difficult to pin down due to people dying years later from the residual effect of radiation. Still, more Japanese lives were saved than lost by the atomic bombing.
Same here. My Dad went on to become part of the occupation forces in Japan. Had we decided to invade rather than drop the bomb, I might very well have never been born.
We owe so much to that generation, in more ways than we can possibly count.
Mad-as-he$$ circa 1997.
My Dad too. He was one of the first into Japan.
That's one more reason why Hussein Obama can not be elected President.
And thank you all the scientists, engineers, and supporting workers at all levels, both military and civilian, who made the Manhattan Project the success that it was, and who gave us the bomb before our enemies got it.
Little Boy and Fat Man probably saved the lives of tens of millions of Japanese.
You know you’re a Moonbat if you attend a “Die In” on August 6th. I’m sure Howie carr will steal that line.
What was the one, something like “representing the sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
And what were some of them wearing? Potato sacks?
The lesson of Okinawa was that Japanese civilians would also join in the mass suicide an invasion would prompt.
Although it was the right decision then and looking back. It still was the correct one to make. I have no problem with that decision, I would have made the same one as Truman did. Absolutely it saved countless amount of American lives, and saved even futher destruction of their county. This is a date that should be remembered, absolutely.
However, a tremendous amount of civilians were killed in the initial blast but from the fall out as well. I don’t think that having such a “cavalier and jovial” attitude towards this day is a very respectfull one. Considering...
Where and what is that pic? Thanks.
Thank God FDR kicked the feckless Wallace to the curb and replaced him with Harry Truman.
WHEN THE ATOM BOMB FELL
(Davis, Taylor)
Oh, it went up so loud it divided up the clouds,
And the houses did vanish away.
And a great a ball of light filled the Japanese with fright.
They must have thought it was their judgment day.
Smoke and fire it did flow through the land of Tokyo;
There was brimstone and dust everywhere.
When it all cleared away there the cruel Japs did lay:
The answer to our fighting boys’ prayers,
Yes, Lord, the answer to our fighting boys’ prayers.
There was no atheist in a foxhole,
And men who never prayed before
Lifted tired and bloodshot eyes to heaven
And begged the Lord to end that awful war.
They told Him of their homes and loved ones,
They told Him that they’d like to be there.
I believe the bomb that struck Hiroshima
Was the answer to our fighting boys’ prayers.
Oh, it went up so loud it divided up the clouds,
And the houses did vanish away.
And a great a ball of light filled the Japanese with fright.
They must have thought it was their judgment day.
Smoke and fire it did flow through the land of Tokyo;
There was brimstone and dust everywhere.
When it all cleared away there the cruel Japs did lay:
The answer to our fighting boys’ prayers,
Yes, Lord, the answer to our fighting boys’ prayers.
Recorded by Karl & Harty
Columbia 36 982-4
1946
"Don't start what you don't want finished", or some such thing, was generally what he said.
You know, I do my best not to even glance at them (or the freaks out there every Monday morning)...they don't deserve it.
“If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth....”
There is no way on God’s green earth that ol’ Big-Ears NObama would ever utter such a statement to any enemies of the US.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
USS Arizona.
ATOMIC POWER
(Fred Kirby)
Oh, this world is at a tremble with its strength and mighty power.
They’re sending up to heaven to get the brimstone fire.
Take warning my dear brother, be careful how you plan,
You’re working with the power of God’s own holy hand.
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God,
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God.
You remember two great cities in a distant foreign land
When scorched from the face of earth the power of Japan.
Be careful my dear brother, don’t take away the joy,
But use it for the good of man and never to destroy
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God,
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki paid a big price for their sins
When scorched from the face of earth, their battles could not win.
But on that day of judgment when comes a greater power,
We will not know the minute and we’ll not know the hour.
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God,
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God.
Recorded by Fred kirby, Rex Allen, the Buchanan Brothers, and others, 1946
Amen.
What a story.
The Japanese would have forced the US into obliterating their nation with the invasion.
Perhaps you'll recognize it from this perspective:
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That is crass.
After
Maybe dropping an A-Bomb on Hiroshima wasn’t necessary - there’s no way to find out and it doesn’t matter to me.
What matters to me is, that I thank god that Hitler didn’t have it first.
the physics behind the Bomb are tough to understand and even tougher to apply - but sooner or later someone has to come up with that.
It turned out that germany in it’s madness had driven away a lot of the guys that really understood physics in europe and in germany: Age and Nils Bor, Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein, Teller, Bethe, Bloch all the guys that gave names to natural constants ...
Oppenheimer (son of a german emigrant) himself recieved his Ph.D. in Göttingen in the Institute of Max Born where he met guys like Heisenberg, Teller and Dirac.
ATOMIC COCKTAIL
(Slim Gaillard)
It’s the drink that you don’t pour.
Now when you take one sip you won’t need anymore.
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.
Splashes ice all around the place.
When you see it coming, grab your suitcase.
It’ll send you through the sky like airmail-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.
You push a button, turn a dial.
Your work is done for miles and miles.
When it hits-it’s bound to shake ‘cause it feels just like an earthquake.
That’s the drink that you don’t pour.
When you take one sip you won’t need anymore.
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.
Recorded by the Slim Gaillard Quartet
Atomic #215
1946
Wellllllllllll,
Bing that Japan was 80% reliant on US oil, there are those who would argue that actually, FRD’s oil embargo on Japan was the first act of war.
Later in September our ship was with the 3rd fleet awaiting the surrender.
Whatever the "Revisionists" say negative about the A bomb is pure bunk. Harry Truman was very courageous to make that call for the bomb to be used......It did end the war that the Japs started.
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