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Feel free to answer my question before asking one of your own.
Feel free to answer my question before asking one of your own.
Try reading, I did.
Absolutely, if it would save millions of civilian lives. That is what the dropping of the bomb did. You can say it wasn't neccessary all you want, but the Japanese were not going to surrender under any other circumstances. Their bravery was admirable, their fanaticism despicable.An American doctor that was a prisoner of war in 1945 in Japan was told of a 'new' atomic weapon that had been dropped on Hiroshima. He remarked that the war would be over in a week.
And yes in the end it was better that the bombs were dropped. They likely saved a couple million Japanese lives and half a million U.S. lives.
So, would you advocate the deliberate targeting and killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians in a conflict today?
One might add this to the question of should we have invaded Iwo: When the flag was raised on Mount Suribachi, why did the Secretary of Defense say, "The raising of the flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years."
slap the Jap off the map
Iwo was important as an emergency landing field for damaged bombers, and for search and rescue ops, so yes it was important, and for planes having mechanical difficulties and fuel leaks and the like as well. Maps are useful when studying history, you know ... along with at least attempting to read and understand history as it developed instead of backwards from the present, and in the latter case many still manage to get it wrong anyway.
No matter how much Unkatare snivels and whines, he still needs to keep his day job, because he isn't going to get any more reparations money.
it was also a forward "listening" post to warn the empire of approaching enemy fleets. and an air base for fighters to attack the B-29's.
Iwo was important as an emergency landing field for damaged bombers, and for search and rescue ops, so yes it was important, and for planes having mechanical difficulties and fuel leaks and the like as well. Maps are useful when studying history, you know ... along with at least attempting to read and understand history as it developed instead of backwards from the present, and in the latter case many still manage to get it wrong anyway.
No matter how much Unkatare snivels and whines, he still needs to keep his day job, because he isn't going to get any more reparations money.