After Saipan and Iwo Jima, he thought atomic bombs were a really cool idea!
Had the bomb not been used (in fact, it took TWO to convince them to give up), the warmongering Japanese military would have forced every man, woman and child to the homeland invasion front to die en masse needlessly.
“My Dad was training in Hawaii for the invasion of Japan when the first bomb dropped. After Saipan and Iwo Jima, he thought atomic bombs were a really cool idea!”
my dad would have been sent too ... he was an 18 year old who joined the navy in early 1945 and had initially been stationed off the eastern seaboard ...
From My Blog Today: Today, August 6th, is a very important date in my life. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima 47 years ago today in 1945. As I’ve mentioned before, my mother was a Captain (later Major) in the Army Nurse Corp, and was Chief of Nursing at West Point. And she and her nurses were on a train bound for New Orleans to get on a troop ship to the Pacific to participate in the invasion of the Japanese homeland. And with Japan’s propensity for attacking hospital ships, there’s a very good chance she might not have made it home. After all, it was forecast that there would be over a million American casualties during a possible invasion.