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Another great day in United States military history.

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[WorkingClassFilth]

These anniversaries should be noted in every public school and the deterrent effect of armed might should be taught over and over and over and over and over and over and over and . . .

[Joe Boucher]

Thus ended WWII and alleviating the need to invade the island of Japan which would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.
GOOD JOB

[johnny7]

And if they didn’t surrender after Nagasaki... it meant that Olympic and Coronet were the next on the docket. The loss of life in an invasion of Japan, at that time, is mind-boggling.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Nagasaki was the secondary target. Kokura was the primary target but the bomb could not be dropped even after three runs on the target due to cloud cover, smoke and haze preventing the sighting of the target by the bombardier, Kermit Beahan.

[back row (L-R)] Captain Beahan, Captain Van Pelt, Jr., First Lt. Albury, Second Lt. Olivi, Major Sweeney

Staff Sgt. Buckley, Master Sgt. Kuharek, Sgt. Gallagher, Staff Sgt. DeHart, Sgt. Spitzer

[LibLieSlayer]

It just makes me warm and fuzzy thinking about it!!! We did it... they deserved it... American and Japanese lives were spared... and the Japan of today would NEVER exist if we had not done it. I just wish we would do it today with iran.... hear me imanutjob??? I love it when we KILL our enemies in grand America style! Yeah baby!!!!

LLS

[TalBlack]

“Another great day in United States military history.”

Absolutely true, but that “Happy Nagasaki day” jibe in the headline is childish.

[PreciousLiberty]

“Another great day in United States military history.”

Indeed. A good day to remember that our nuclear forces are essential and in need of modernization.

Nothing in history has been a force for peace to equal the nuclear weapon.

[Renegade]

Thanks again to the makers of the bomb .My dad was in California training for the invasion of mainland Japan when the bomb was dropped. Good chance I probably wouldn’t be writing this if it hadn’t happened !
“ Made in America, Tested in Japan !”

[RichInOC]

“What’s up, Hiroshi? Let’s light this candle!”

[Nathan Zachary]

"The hills that surrounded the city did a better job of containing the destructive force, but the number killed is estimated at anywhere between 60,000 and 80,000 (exact figures are impossible, the blast having obliterated bodies and disintegrated records)."

And of course, this is what the anti American- anti nuke crowd will be wailing over during all the tearful candlelight vigils held tonight.

What they can't seem to get through their heads is that had the war continued, 10 times that number would have been killed by the Japanese imperial army alone in their occupied zones.

[Nathan Zachary]

It should be Happy Fatman day!

[stuartcr]

I wonder if any of those 60-80k people were non-cambatants?

[BigCinBigD]

I understand that on a good day down town, you can still smell fried sushi.

[Kolb]

Truly an historic day. Thank God we had the will to use this weapon; countless lives were spared because of it.

Should also serve as a reminder and warning to enemies of the United States...

[Chode]

Absolutely!!! my Father and his Brother were already in the pacific(Dad on a ship my Uncle in the CB's)and my mothers two Brothers(both in the 82'nd) were on their way over.

[Cripplehawk]

.....”Frederick Bock, took off from Tinian Island under the command of Maj. Charles W. Sweeney. Nagasaki was a shipbuilding center, the very industry intended for destruction.....”

Wans’t Kokura the target? But due to bad weather they diverted to their secondary target Nagasaki. Am I wrong?

[MeekOneGOP]

boooooooooooooooommmmmmp !!

[wtc911]

Must read.....

http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/macarthur%20reports/macarthur%20v1/ch13.htm

The details of Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan.

The two bombs saved a million lives.

[Tolkien]

I love the Japanese people and I say it had to be done. Those bombs saved potentially millions of people.