The Rape of Nanking: 300,000 massacred by the Japanese 
Bataan Death March
These images won't evince the slightest bit of emotionalism out of me.
War is hell. The Japs gave us war, we gave 'em hell.
No more graphic than pictures from Pearl Harbor.
Funny that you are arguing that “war is hell,” except when it isn’t.
I say damn on the Japanese for taking away a slice of our collective humanity and forcing our hand.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved American lives and saved Japanese lives. The lesson is ‘don’t make war.’ I think the Japanese learned it.
Wonder if they were still thinking Pearl Harbor was a good idea.
The worst of those photos doesn’t represent a fraction of the status-quo brutality inflicted on Allied POW’s, or Chinese and Korean civilians by the Japanese during the war.
Yeah, it’s moral relativism and it puts into perspective why we had to did it.
They say that there were rolls of film, but they only came up with 10 images.
Maybe they shouldn’t have F’d with us?
Wonder if the PC crowd has censored those away?
As an old Army Master Sergeant I knew used to say, “If you don’t start no s__t, there won’t be no S__t.”
The Rape of Nanking: 300,000 massacred by the Japanese
Bataan Death March
wow. that was some bomb. easy to see why it hasnt been used since
The Japanese started the war. There were forces in Japan that delayed communications from the US because they wanted a war. Its certainly sad to see all that destruction and death. The bomb was better than the alternatives.
Well it certainly was unfortunate but after hearing recounts of Nanking, I must say they had it coming.
This is probably off-topic, but...
I have a distant memory about something I saw back in high school in the 1980s. We were brought to the school library in groups to watch a documentary that the school librarian was pushing. It was basically a horror show about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how it devastated those cities. It contained footage of the victims, living and dead, not long after the bombing. It reminded me of those movies I was being shown in driver’s ed...lots of shocking and bloody images.
Even as a teenager who was more interested in what I was doing outside of school (let’s not go there), this event raised suspicion in my non-political mind even then. There was little or no context in the film about WHY the decision was made to drop those bombs. This film wasn’t being shown in conjunction with anything going on in any other class.
As I look back now, this was clearly a liberal ‘look what big bad America did’ film. I would love to go back in time and inhabit my then body just for a few minutes to call shenanigans on that librarian. She never liked me anyway (I am a male).
Well, as gory and awful as it was it was still probably better than what the pubblic skools are trying to indoctrinate kids with today: An Inconvenient Truth. Blech.
Thanks to those who worked on the Manhattan project that made those pictures possible.
I am glad we nuked them.
I wished we could have nuked them sooner.
It saved at least 100,000 American lives from dying in a mainland Japan invasion, and probably 500,000 Jap lives.
I have absolutely no problem with these pictures. Hell, I’d like to see more of the same in the Middle East!
What the Japanese did to us and others is well documented.
I agree.
They’re lucky we only dropped two bombs.
We should have dropped ten.