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To: Rockitz
Millions of Japanese lives too. The napalm runs from Okinawa were going to make the bombing of Dresden Germany look like a picnic.

Yes, the nuke was horrible, but, it ended the whole thing.

On my father's ship there was total agreement, that no one ever wanted to see anything like that war again.

20 posted on 05/27/2016 9:24:06 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Bogie

And, if we had simply blockaded for a decade or so , the Japanese navy and air force being completely destroyed, many millions of Japanese would simply have slowly starved to death, pretty gruesome that.


24 posted on 05/27/2016 9:52:26 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Better questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.)
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