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To: narby
The firebomb raids killed far more civilians in Tokyo, Kyoto, etc.

We never dropped one bomb on Kyoto. You've been proven wrong again, narbo.

182 posted on 03/06/2007 9:18:58 PM PST by NewLand (Always remember September 11, 2001)
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To: NewLand
We never dropped one bomb on Kyoto. You've been proven wrong again, narbo.

No. But here are the percentages of other Japanese cities destroyed by non-nuclear bombing.

Yokohama - 58% destroyed

Tokyo - 51% destroyed

Toyama - 99%

Nagoya - 40%

Osaka - 35%

Nishinomiya - 11.9%

Siumonoseki - 37.6%

Kure - 41.9%

Kobe - 55.7%

Omuta - 35.8%

Wakayama - 50%

Kawasaki - 36.2%

Okayama - 68.9%

Yawata - 21.2%

Kagoshima 63.4%

Amagasaki - 18.9%

Sasebo - 41.4 %

Moh - 23.3 %

Miyakonoio - 26.5%

Nobeoka - 25.2%

Miyazaki - 26.1%

Hbe - 20.7%

Saga - 44.2%

Imabari - 63.9%

Matsuyama - 64%

Fukui - 86%

Tokushima - 85.2%

Sakai - 48.2%

Hachioji - 65%

Kumamoto - 31.2%

Isezaki - 56.7%

Takamatsu - 67.5%

Akashi - 50.2%

Fukuyama - 80.9%

Aomori - 30%

Okazaki - 32.2%

Oita - 28.2%

Hiratsuka - 48.4%

Tokuyama - 48.3%

Yokkichi - 33.6%

Uhyamada - 41.3%

Ogaki - 39.5%

Gifu - 63.6%

Shizuoka - 66.1%

Himeji - 49.4 %

Fukuoka - 24.1%

Kochi - 55.2%

Shimizu - 42 %

Omura - 33.1%

Chiba - 41%

Ichinomiya - 56.3%

Nara - 69.3%

Tsu - 69.3%

Kuwana - 75%

Toyohashi - 61.9%

Numazu - 42.3%

Chosi - 44.2%

Kofu - 78.6%

Utsunomiya - 43.7%

Mito - 68.9 %

Sendai - 21.9%

Tsuruga - 65.1%

Nagaoka - 64.9%

Hitachi - 72%

Kumagaya - 55.1%

Hamamatsu - 60.3%

Maebashi - 64.2%

I think that list makes up for my unfortunate pick of one of the very few major civilian population centers not seriously damaged by B-29 fire bomb raids.

My point still stands that what we were unwilling to do against the Germans, target civlians, were were quite happy to do against Japanese civlians. That our commanders would look the other way when our soldiers killed Japanese that tried to surrender in battle, as Lindbergh witnessed, is quite believable if we were willing to alter the rules of targeting Japanese civlian population centers on a massive scale.

And then came the nukes.

195 posted on 03/07/2007 8:02:11 AM PST by narby
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