Posted on 05/29/2016 6:29:04 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
“Wow. It took you a minute to post a typical revisionist article about the poor put-upon Japanese who couldnt find enough white flags to properly surrender to nasty, war-mongering America.”
He has talent for that. Kind of a recurring theme for those of us familiar with what he likes to post.
Particularly if the Soviets beat us to the invasion of the Japanese home islands, as was quite likely.
I’ve read the entire article.
May I comment now, Father?
Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
This is a stupid revisionist article to brainwash the snowflakes with lies to support dumbo.
Other than this commentary it is not worth the time to respond. If you know people who were alive then and know history you know why we dropped the bomb. We built it for that.
Any overtures by the japs to surrender had unacceptable conditions and left an aggressor such as they with their conquests.
We dropped the bombs because we drew a line in the sand and they crossed it. Add to that about 350,000 other reasons of dead and wounded American troops.
Togo wanted to surrender? Hmmmm....
It’s been a while since I read John Toland’s pro-Japanese (and Pulitizer prize winning) book about their war, but I don’t recall him mentioning that.
I've read several bios on The General and I never came across the above before. I am calling BS on this article.
Go peddle your revisionist tripe on DU.
When Obama surrendered at Hiroshima, there was no mention of Pearl Harbor; the Nanking Massacre (300,000 civilians murdered;) the summary beheading of downed American airmen; the Bataan Death March; the atrocities in Manila; the wholesale slaughter of Chinese civilians using biological weapons; or, eating the livers of American POW’s. I’m sure that the Japanese officials were thinking, “If only this quisling had been president during WWII, he would have surrendered, and we would have won the war.”
Given the circumstances at the time, and in view of the casualty projections surrounding the invasion of the Japanese mainland, I wouldn’t have hesitated to turn their whole country into radioactive mist. But, we only had two bombs at the time. Now, President Pity Party commemorates a once genocidal regime that slaughtered 5,964,000 innocent civilians. Sniff, Sniff.
Rumor has it we had two more which Patton wanted to drop on Moscow
...2) Prove to the military that the weapon could be militarized.
3) Show the Russians that WE had a working, militarized, deliverable device to twarth them running from Eastern Germany to Portugal/UK, Japan, Korea, etc.
4) Virgin city bombed to see what the effects were (tactially) and show the world that we were willing to use it (strategically).
“The Japanese surrendered because they didnt know that we couldnt nuke them a third time.”
IIRC, a third bomb would have been ready by September 1945.
Then there was a captured P-51 pilot being tortured by the Japs & who had no knowledge of the atomic program. Hearing his torturers discussing what had just happened to Hiroshima & Nagasaki, he “confessed” that the U.S. had a hundred more atomic bombs ready to go, and that Tokyo was the next target.
This was forwarded directly to Hirohito & the imperial war council, and they finally decided the situation was hopeless; either surrender or see Japan extinguished as a people and a culture.
Hey time keeper I did not read the article. Form the statement that they tried to surrender for 6 months indicates it is trash. Whey did they fight to the death in so many battles? Why were there isolated soldiers fighting after the surrender. Anyone can rewrite history but I prefer the stories of those that were there.
The Japanese were trying to “surrender”, yes. But on their terms. Which is not really a surrender. A better term would be “cessation of hostilities”.
We could have by SEP/OCT 1945 with the Tinian bomb and 5-12 bombs by end of 1946.
We were looking for unconditional surrender so we could try to ensure they couldn’t fight again.
Unlike people of today, the people of WWII learned their lesson from WWI.
That’s why we had that based in Germany for 50 years and still have a base in Okinawa today.
"Hiroshima as Gun Control" (by Richard Fernandez, Belmont Club)
Funny what a "peace-feeler" that humongous armada to Midway was.
Counterintelligence at its finest. God Bless that airman.
As the daughter of a veteran of the Pacific Theater of war, who was scheduled for the invasion, I find any revisionism of evil Imperial Japan a disgrace and an embarrassment to my country.
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