-Admiral William F. Halsey
Posted on 05/03/2008 10:58:43 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces.
Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb.
Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. The entire set is available below.
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Hirohito should have swung at the end of a rope along with Tojo.
The divine Tenno Mikado was no mere figurehead, as the pinko revisionists would have you believe.
I remember a contest between two Japanese officers as to who could hack down the most civilians in a certain partition of time. The poster advertising this said event seemed to exude the festivity of a college football game, very sickening to say the least.
My dad was on Okinawa preparing for that invasion, following a very narrow miss by the Kamikaze that struck the Maryland after flying few feet over his head. Those little factoids do color my perception of the atomic bombings...
Killjoy.
Bravo! Bellissimo!
No, it’s General MacArthur.
Talk to survivors of the Bataan Death March if you want graphic! Ask anyone about the American sailors trapped in sunken ships at Pearl Harbor; ones that couldn’t be rescued.
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We’ve tried “Nation Building” in Iraq.
In the spirit of a well controlled science experiment we should contrast it with “Nation Leveling” in Iran.
Remember the results of the Germany Experiment after WWII? Divide the country down the middle, run a free market democracy on one half and a communist dictatorship on the other?
I’m sure every junior high schooler is taught all about the differences between the results on each side.
Volkswagon, Porche, Audi and BMW on one side, the Trabi on the other....
The bombs made sure there were no more Okinawas....I'll take that trade-off any day.
I think if all wars were ended with exclamations marks (WWII) instead of ellipses (post WWII), we wouldn’t have to fight so many of them.
It is good to record events as much as is possible, but there doesn’t seem to me any absolute moral lesson we can gather from these pictures apart from ‘war is a bad thing.’
Is it a necessary thing? Well, ask the Chinese, Koreans and other East Asians that Japan was waging an unprovoked imperial war against. While the fall of China to communism (putting aside the question of whether we could have stopped that or not) put a pall upon the results of the Pacific conflict, nonetheless the US achieved its primary goal of stopping Japanese aggression. And that is as worthy an achievement as any conflict has achieved.
That would make a GREAT tagline, if only it wasn’t so long.
No pity here...my uncle was captured by the Japanese. He was a big man for then, 6’2”, 200 lbs., came out of their prison camp weighing barely over a hundred pounds. Was fed garbage and potatoe peelings and the inhumane treatment was unbearable. He really couldn’t even talk about it much. I had the chance to take the tour of the Bridge over the River Kwai a couple of years ago and the animal cruelty that was engaged there is beyond comprehension. They got what they deserved, to bad they didn’t bomb the bastards sooner.
I went out with a woman whose father was a Bataan POW, I was still in the Army at the time, 1968. He told me that he was glad that he had no male children, I though of the alternatives if we were in a war zone, and put him on my ahole list.
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