[FreedomPoster]

Booster bump bump.

Anyone with a lick of sense, some knowledge of military history and operations, and most especially knowledge of the battle for Okinawa, knows that the A-bombs saved many, many Japanese lives, versus a conventional invasion. Not to mention the American casualties.

[BBell]

I tend to agree with you that the bomb saved lives. But having spent some years on Okinawa and doing the battle tours and reading about the battle I will say it was a different battle in regard that we took a very large number of POWs and among them Officers which hadn't happened before. The reason was is that the Officers and most of the Men new the war was lost and everything they were doing was just a delaying action. The Senior Officers did the honorable thing but a number of junior Officers actually surrendered. The point I'm making is that the Japs knew they were beat and their is a possibility, however remote, that they may not have fought as hard as we think they might have, especially the younger ones. Having said this I still think the bomb saved lives.