When We Dropped The Atomic Bombs…..

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(07-02-2023, 07:49 PM)Stewy Wrote: Right and the Japan based kamikaze fliers had orders to attack the troop transports, not the war ships, which would have meant hundreds of thousands or more troops dead before we take a beach head.

Archived videos (not propaganda videos) from 1944-45 show the level of prep. the Japanese were putting into it.  They expected every man, woman and child to fight.  They showed   women and children in uniforms, some with old swords or farm tools, training to fight, and they looked proud to do it.  10's of millions of Japanese would have died if we had invaded, and millions of US Troops and allies.   The decision to drops the bombs was to save lives, because we were going to win one way or another.  It was invasion or surrender.  There was no third option, because we weren't walking away.

Crazy how different things are in different cultures.

This is why I'm so in love with history, particularly wars, and always have been, especially pre-tree.