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Here you could be extolling the work of the Tuskegee airmen, but aren't. You could be extolling the virtues of the code talkers, but areen't. You coud be extolling the virtues of teh red ball express, but aren't.

Please, give me a brake. None of these people faced the dangers or knowledge that they were facing one-way flights like Lt. Kobyashi or the Kamikaze pilots knew they were taking.

I notice you take a pass on defending the war crimes of the Allied powers during and after the war. If I were you, I also would take a pass, but I'd wouldn't dodge the issue like you are so adroitly doing.

Sigh. I never believed I'd have to defend the WWII actions of the allies on FR.

Tokyo, the capital, was the industrial and political heart of Japan.

Despite setback after setback, the Empire fought to hang on to every island possible (and we won't mention how many deaths were inflicted on the civilian population of the PI during normal garrisoning duties).

As a result, the bombings had to touch the civilian population, to demoralize it, and make it harder to continue perpetrationg the war - and as luck would have it, that population lived in residential areas built primarily of wood products.

So we bombed, and bombed, and bombed some more - and still the population held on - mainly because of the conditioning they had received, and not so much out of an innate bravery.

You want to say that the war should have been prosecuted differently, or that the US should have left it alone? Do you think Imperial Japan would have let the PI become independent in 1948? What about the other Pacific nations?