The U.S. carried out a highly effective conventional bombing campaign against Japan.
Apparently you guys have never heard of the Doolittle Raid. I'm surprised. That's what would suit Israel.
I know Congressman are uneducated idiots, but I thought Freepers knew about WWWII.
I didn’t suggest Israel nuke Gaza.
I know about the Doolittle raid.
You need to read better.
What BS! Obviously you never heard of Operation Starvation, Mr. WWII expert. No, the conventional bombing of Japan was not going to end the war. Highly effective, my big toe. The only thing the fire bombings did was to marginally affect what was left of Japanese industry’s individual presses and drills located in homes. The loss of a few hundred thousand civilians meant nothing when Ketsu-Go planned to put a pike or club or grenade in every Japanese man, woman and child’s hands to kill the American invaders. The Japanese planned on tens of millions dying. Why don’t you read about Operation Downfall and its run up before you parade your lack of knowledge of WWII?
I believe I said it was a perfect metaphor. You used the term first, apparently not knowing what that means either.
“a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not LITERALLY applicable.”
We certainly know all about the Doolittle raid, but apparently you don’t as you seem to be confounding it with later bombings raids that actually did damage to Japan. The Doolittle raid was more about morale than anything and did little damage to Japan. It was meant to shake Japan’s confidence in its invulnerability. Since it occurred well before any of the island hopping campaign, it was a small scale carrier based force that was at the outer limits of its effective range (bombers had to land in China after the raid). Larger scale raids did not take place until later in the war, after island bases such as Guadalcanal were occupied. IncreAsing the effectiveness of bombing raids was also much of the impetus behind taking Iwo Jima and Okinawa, since these provided forward bases within range for fighter escorts for the bombers.
Hate to tell you this but the “Doolittle Raid” did NOTHING but raise morale back home.
Now Curtis LeMay firebombing the hell out of Tokyo and a lot of other cities helped a lot, but until Hiroshima and Nagasaki the Japanese Military was still teaching their civilian population (including children) to fight with BAMBOO STICKS.
10’s of millions would have died on the Home Islands in pointless resistance to the combined allied military might at that point!