Posted on 04/21/2016 4:41:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Karma worked in this case. Nagasaki was the city where the torpedo’s used at Pearl Harbor were manufactured.
Or Pearl Harbor?
And this is why a lot of Americans are going to be surprised when - after a military conflict finally starts between China and Japan - all of Asia is going to back China.
On a very personal level.
My Dad was scheduled to support Operation OLYMAPIC. That was two years before my birth.
Also, I had two uncles from different branches of my family scheduled to go ashore.
My readings from that era, 1935 - 1945, from original source documents, not the very heavily censored public text books, says the initial costs of a Japanese invasion was in the tens of millions plus a very strong possibly of genocide when the rest of the surviving Japanese population followed their Emperor-God in death.
The brutal calculus of combat says that the Atomic Bomb induced deaths of August 1945 was the optimum course. Very much the lesser of two evils.
Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night was scheduled to begin September 22, 1945. It was to spread plague through southern California. Japan surrendered before the plan happened.
The Chinese will never forget the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Very true.
Many US families received telegrams and the dreaded visit by uniformed personnel in 1945 alone, probably more than any other year in the war.
On August 5, 1945,before the first bomb fell,the Japanese were not going to surrender, and we were going to give them no quarter.
The atomic bombs,even though destructive, saved millions of lives on both sides.
No one could have foreseen such a quick end to the War in the Pacific, with a surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, less than a month later.
Obama, the syphilitic chancre on the body politic.
Weather did impact thefinal choice of one of the cities, but there wasn’t much left of most major industrial cities of any consequence.
http://apjjf.org/-Mark-Selden/2414/article.html
“Overall, bombing strikes destroyed 40 percent of the 66 Japanese cities targeted, with total tonnage dropped on Japan increasing from 13,800 tons in March to 42,700 tons in July. [31] ...
Overall, by one calculation, the US firebombing campaign destroyed 180 square miles of 67 cities, killed more than 300,000 people and injured an additional 400,000, figures that exclude the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [32]
Between January and July 1945, the US firebombed and destroyed all but five Japanese cities, deliberately sparing Kyoto, the ancient imperial capital, and four others. The extent of the destruction was impressive ranging from 50 to 60% of the urban area destroyed in cities including Kobe, Yokohama and Tokyo, to 60 to 88% in seventeen cities, to 98.6% in the case of Toyama. [33] In the end, the Atomic Bomb Selection Committee chose Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki as the pristine targets to display the awesome power of the atomic bomb to Japan and the world in the event that would both bring to a spectacular end the costliest war in human history and send a powerful message to the Soviet Union”
IIRC Harry Truman was handed the following estimates of invasion combatant casualties before making the decision to drop the bombs:
US: 2,000,000
Japan: 6,000,000
I suspect the civilian casualties would have exceeded 20,000,000 due to starvation and disease. He saved a lot of Japanese from death.
IIRC Harry Truman was handed the following estimates of invasion combatant casualties before making the decision to drop the bombs:
US: 2,000,000
Japan: 6,000,000
I suspect the civilian casualties would have exceeded 20,000,000 due to starvation and disease. He saved a lot of Japanese from death.
I figured if we drop a few more it might help everyone else grasp the proper ‘context’ of the current state of affairs.
Too late to consider now, but a third A-bomb should have been used on Mecca, saving millions more.
I’d like for Obama to address these lessons of WWII, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in lieu of the intended apology:
Civilians pay a heavy price for supporting bad governments.
Don’t start what you can’t finish.
If you do start, finish and move on.
I’d wager that Obama and Kerry despise the US as the only country to have used atomic/nuclear weapons. Their apology tour is designed to emphasize how the US has lost its will to resist aggression, under the lib logic that our aggression is what causes Iran, NK, etc. to pursue WMD.
Let’s not forget that the day AFTER Nagasaki was bombed the USA again mounted a conventional raid using 1000 bombers each loaded with twenty thousand pounds of high explosive and incendiary bombs. The again killed tens of thousands of Japanese.
What gets the Libs panties in a wad was we used two planes with one bomb each to destroy two cities.
If we had mounted a 100 plane raid and killed the same nothing would have been said.
Here is a link to the very last raid on Japan.
http://b-29s-over-korea.com/Last-Raid-On-Nakita/JAPANSDaysAfterAtomicBombDrop1.html
The Left still whine about Dresden though.
Thanks for the link. I knew about the attempted coup at the Palace, following the bombing of Nagasaki, but I had not read about the raid on Akita.
My dad was 17 in 1945. He served in the army in occupied Japan. If it wasn’t for the atomic bombs, I would most likely not have been born.
Also, the Soviets would have entered the war, and most likely we would have seen a divided Japan, just like Germany and Korea. And a Civil War that would have made the Korean Conflict look like child’s play.
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