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To: Alberta's Child
Did the U.S. forces on Iwo Jima face massive military casualties between 1945 and 1949 just because those two dudes were willing to hold out for four years after Japan surrendered? Of course not.

No, the US faced those massive casualties in March of 1945 because the other 21000 buddies of these two were wiling to hold out. Must the entire population of Japan be exterminated through death from above and starvation below to make you bomb haters happy?

106 posted on 08/02/2014 12:08:15 PM PDT by xone
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To: xone

Ironically, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings pretty much rendered the massive U.S. casualties on Iwo Jima in March 1945 — and later on Okinawa — a complete waste of lives on both sides. The B-29s that flew the bombing missions to Japan were stationed in Tinian, which is more than 1,200 miles southeast of Okinawa. The U.S. didn’t need those islands to win the war after all.


110 posted on 08/02/2014 12:13:12 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: xone

Japan would not starve AT ALL.

There farms were not and did not need to be bombed.

They were on rations because they were supplying their overseas ground forces.

If they had been blockaded, no food would have left Japan.


114 posted on 08/02/2014 12:24:21 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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