From August 6-14 my father was in a troop carrier in the Panama Canal on his way to Japan to be part of a first-wave paratroop strike force that would be dropped into a battlefield on one of the Japanese homeland islands AFTER a tactical nuke had been dropped there.
Thank God for the bomb...I would not be here if it had not been dropped strategically on civilian populations as opposed to being used later as a tactical battlefield weapon.
It was not dropped on a civilian population, it was dropped on two cities that had heavy war industrial production, and Hiroshima even had an Army HQ in it.
I'm glad it stopped the war too. My uncle was driving the landing craft to those battles. He doesn't talk about it much.
DK
that's nice that he was defending our nation in that fashion.
I can make similar claims about my uncles serving in both theatres too.