I can only imagine how many American lives Tibbet saved by dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Of course this has all been forgotten - and is not taught in American history classes any longer.
What I saw before I retired from teaching was “narratives” of how devastating the “evil bombs” were on the Japanese populations and how it affected them - not on how those bombs stopped what would have been an invasion.
I read a great narrative from a son whose father was on a ship headed to Japan for the invasion - 1/2 way there, they turned around because Japan had surrender - he said they celebrated all the way back to the U.S.
My dad was training B25 pilots in Arizona and had just gotten his orders to the Pacific when the bombs were dropped. Good thing we had them.