[The Free Engineer]

Using the bomb on Japan may very well have made my life possible.
My father was 17 at the time and thanks to high school ROTC a fully trained pilot.
If not for the bomb when he turned 18 in November he may have been off for Japan.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My dad had mostly recovered from burns suffered in a crash landing in India (he was a Hump pilot in the C-B-I Theater.)
He had been notified that qualified pilots would be needed in late 1945 and agreed to return to the service.
Fortunately, this didn’t happen. He met my mom in ‘45 and the rest was history.

[Night Hides Not]

Using the bomb on Japan may very well have made my life possible.

Good day, FRiend. My father enlisted in the Navy as a 17 YO, and was training for the invasion of Japan.

Truman made the right call, and not just for the US.