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To: r9etb
Actually, it didn't work all that well.

If you had asked a citizen of Japan or Nagasaki in late August 1945 if they wanted to keep fighting the Americans I promise you that you would have heard a large NO.

484 posted on 06/22/2004 11:51:06 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Resolve to perform what you must; perform without fail that what you resolve.)
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To: Centurion2000
If you had asked a citizen of Japan or Nagasaki in late August 1945 if they wanted to keep fighting the Americans I promise you that you would have heard a large NO.

More people died in the firebombing raid on Tokyo than died in either of the A-bomb cities. The Japanese did not surrender. Nor did they surrender as a result of the the fire bombing campaign that began in early 1945.

They surrendered because the emperor said "enough."

499 posted on 06/22/2004 11:58:19 AM PDT by r9etb
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