[elcid1970]

“The Japanese surrendered because they didn’t know that we couldn’t nuke them a third time.”

IIRC, a third bomb would have been ready by September 1945.

Then there was a captured P-51 pilot being tortured by the Japs & who had no knowledge of the atomic program. Hearing his torturers discussing what had just happened to Hiroshima & Nagasaki, he “confessed” that the U.S. had a hundred more atomic bombs ready to go, and that Tokyo was the next target.

This was forwarded directly to Hirohito & the imperial war council, and they finally decided the situation was hopeless; either surrender or see Japan extinguished as a people and a culture.

[DCBryan1]

Then there was a captured P-51 pilot being tortured by the Japs & who had no knowledge of the atomic program. Hearing his torturers discussing what had just happened to Hiroshima & Nagasaki, he “confessed” that the U.S. had a hundred more atomic bombs ready to go, and that Tokyo was the next target. This was forwarded directly to Hirohito & the imperial war council, and they finally decided the situation was hopeless; either surrender or see Japan extinguished as a people and a culture.

Counterintelligence at its finest. God Bless that airman.

[T-Bird45]

... see Japan extinguished as a people and a culture.

Exactly as Admiral Bull Halsey would have preferred: "Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell."

[Defiant]

I never heard that story, it seems pretty interesting. Do you know where I could read more about it?