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To: tomzz
One or two square miles of Hiroshima were flattened and they say something like 100,000 people died.

Fine with me. Contrary to conventional BS, Hiroshima was a military and industrial target. I know there are revisionist liars who will tell you otherwise. As for Tokyo, it was the belly of the Beast and needed to get whatever we could deliver. If we took out a million, which I seriously don't buy, it's still OK with me.

314 posted on 05/21/2006 6:46:35 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Another way to look at the whole thing is that if the Japanese hadn't surendered when they did, the **** they'd have been looking at two months later would have been worse than the two A bombs. LeMay would have been resupplied with incindiaries which he'd run out of in July, he'd have been operating from Okinawa instead of the Marianas, which would have had the same effect as tripling the number of his planes,all American carriers would have been freed for action against the mainland and those carriers were only vulnerable to kamikazes while protecting and covering an invasion; in their normal attack/assault mode the damage was done and they were gone before you could stage a kamikaze raid on them. There would have been new Midway class carriers with armored flight decks and compliments of F7s and F8s, i mean, it just doesn't get much worse than all that.


316 posted on 05/21/2006 7:36:17 PM PDT by tomzz
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