[Arthur McGowan]

Japan’s crimes are irrelevant.

The relevant question is: Were the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combatants?

[milford421]

If you actually READ the article I posted, you wouldn’t have asked that.

[Mad Dawgg]

Were the well over 100,000 civilians that were massacred in Manila by the Japanese combatants? BTW they were not bombed by the Japanese most were deliberately rounded up and executed many of the women and girls they raped first. We dropped pamphlets warning civilians to flee the cities so they would not be killed.

Japan reaped what they sowed.

And btw we bombed many Japanese cities with conventional bombs and thousands upon thousands were killed there too.

Hell we literally immolated 25,000 or more in Dresden when we firebombed the city and razed it. People died for weeks after the attack from horrendous burns and infections. But the Axis started the "total war" gambit and they lost when it was turned around on them.

[Fiji Hill]

Were the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combatants?

According to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which, of course, is a tendentious source, about 10,000 soldiers were killed at Hiroshima and fewer than 200 at Nagasaki. In their book Enola Gay (New York, Stein & Day, 1977), Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts also put the number of military casualties in Hiroshima at five figures.