[Eric in the Ozarks]

We lived in Japan 1951-1961. I was an Army Brat.
Our maid, Masako, was a 10 year old girl in 1945 and was forced to work in a munitions plant in Yokohama. The building featured a large red cross on the roof.
After the city was destroyed by B-29s, some of the machinery was salvaged and production continued in the sandstone caves dug by Japanese a few years earlier. She said if it hadn't been for the A-bombs, the Imperialists would have never surrendered.

[investigateworld]

"..The Imperialists would have never surrendered.."

In my youth I lived next door to a very delicate, refined Japanese lady. The perfect picture of 'class'.
It would have been her assignment, should an invading force landed on Japanese soil to throw Molotov cocktails at our guys.

It was her belief that use of the A-Bombs, saved face for Japan so they could surrender with honor, so to speak.