Oh yes. It would have been much better to let the war drag on, more innocents killed. More of our soldiers killed. I'm sure the leftists would prefer that. Absolutely certain they would prefer that.
Don't bomb Pearl Harbor. Don't march our soldiers to death at Bataan.
So9
Hey Butterheads, ya started it, ya lost, get over it!
Wonderful memorial service at the Covington Cathedral Basilica here yesterday. The Sakura Ladies Chorus performed " Hirosima Peace Song" and "Furusato" ( My Country Home). Thats the news from middle Americas alternate universe.
Dropping the bomb to end the war, support ping.
Naturally, Leftist history revisionists refuse to recognize this simple fact.
"When can we have that bomb?”
Extract from, "The Last Great Victory" (Book, p. 653 Hardcover Edition), 1991, Stanley Weintraub
It was the afternoon of August 5, 1945. To a group of six hundred army officers assigned to the Hiroshima garrison, Professor Yoshitaka Mimura of Hiroshima Bunri University, a theoretical physicist, was explaining the scientific possibilities of new weapons which might reverse the tide of war. Japan had little Navy or Air Force left. Within months a massive invasion of the home islands seemed likely. “Could you tell us, sir”, a young lieutenant colonel asked, “what an atomic bomb is? Is there any possibility that the bomb will be deployed by the end of this war?”
Mimura chalked a rough sketch on the blackboard to illustrate the [nuclear] reactions required. Scientists at Tokyo University, he explained, have “theoretically penetrated” the secrets of nuclear fission. If they could apply their theories practically, an atomic bomb “could be smaller than a piece of caramel candy, but, if exploded five hundred meters above a populated city, it could destroy 200,000 lives.”
“When can we have that bomb?” “Well, it is difficult to say”, Mimura answered, knowing nothing of any Japanese enterprise to apply fission theory to bomb-making. “But I can tell you this much: not before the end of this war.”
Hmmm...two, three generations after the fact and they're still yelling "peace". I'd say the bomb was pretty effective.
According to the revisionist historians, the US dropped the A-bomb on innocent Japanese civilians purely out of racism. Perhaps the good mayor of Hiroshima should visit Pearl Harbor, talk to the survivors of Japanese concentration camps and especially read the accounts of the Japanese occupation of Nanking.
I would like to ask the mayor what he thinks about the dirty bomb attack on San Francisco the Japanese had planned for Aug. 17, 1945.
It seems this man has a selective memory. Pearl Harbor attacked December 7, 1941 by none other than JAPAN!
Truman did the right thing. Everything said contrary to that statement isn't supported by the known data.
Someone posted on another thread that everyone who was in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing and shortly after who died for any reason in later years gets added to the toll.
Favorite saying " Made in America, Tested in Japan "
On March 9-10 1945 300+ B 29s attacked Tokyo with napalm fire bombs and wiped out 16 square miles of the city and approximately 100,000 died. That attack equaled the atomic bombs in lethalness.
My dad was with Patton's third army in Europe. After V-E day he was sent to the US to train for the invasion of JAPAN when the BOMB was dropped on HIro and Nag. He always said the BOMB probably saved his life.
It should be noted that Japanese schools and history books omitted ANY mention of Pearl Harbor until sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. It was only the continued insistence of the American government that forced the Japanese to acknowledge starting the war by attacking Pearl Harbor. Most Japanese were ashamed and embarrassed at the time by their government's behavior.