"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down..."
50 eyewitness accounts from Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
A little discussed fact of the Hiroshima bombing is
that there were two B-29's that flew over the city
that day. >
Hiroshima had the highest density of servicemen to
civilians in Japan. It was the Headquarters of
Field General Hata's Second General Army, built up
to oppose the US.
About 43,000 soldiers were in the city.
Many were doing their morning P.T. training
on the parade grounds when the bomb went off.
Try factual non fiction:
https://www.amazon.com/Downfall-End-Imperial-Japanese-Empire/dp/0141001461
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
– May 1, 2001
by Richard B. Frank
In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly
declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to
the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders
learned in the summer of 1945 that their alternate strategy to end the
war by invasion had been shattered by the massive Japanese buildup on
Kyushu, and that intercepted diplomatic documents also revealed the
dismal prospects of negotiation. Here also, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how Japan's leaders were willing to risk
complete annihilation to preserve the nation's existing order. Frank's comprehensive account demolishes long-standing myths with the stark
realities of this great historical controversy.
On 8/6/2021 8:17 AM, someone wrote:
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down..."
----
50 eyewitness accounts from Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
A little discussed fact of the Hiroshima bombing is
that there were two B-29's that flew over the city
that day. >
Hiroshima had the highest density of servicemen to
civilians in Japan. It was the Headquarters of
Field General Hata's Second General Army, built up
to oppose the US.
About 43,000 soldiers were in the city.
Many were doing their morning P.T. training
on the parade grounds when the bomb went off.
Try factual non fiction:
https://www.amazon.com/Downfall-End-Imperial-Japanese-Empire/dp/0141001461
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
– May 1, 2001
by Richard B. Frank
In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly
declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to
the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders
learned in the summer of 1945 that their alternate strategy to end the
war by invasion had been shattered by the massive Japanese buildup on
Kyushu, and that intercepted diplomatic documents also revealed the
dismal prospects of negotiation. Here also, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how Japan's leaders were willing to risk
complete annihilation to preserve the nation's existing order. Frank's comprehensive account demolishes long-standing myths with the stark
realities of this great historical controversy.
On 8/6/2021 1:52 PM, a425couple wrote:
On 8/6/2021 8:17 AM, Jonathan wrote:
----
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down..."
50 eyewitness accounts from Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
A little discussed fact of the Hiroshima bombing is
that there were two B-29's that flew over the city
that day. >
Hiroshima had the highest density of servicemen to
civilians in Japan. It was the Headquarters of
Field General Hata's Second General Army, built up
to oppose the US.
About 43,000 soldiers were in the city.
Many were doing their morning P.T. training
on the parade grounds when the bomb went off.
Was invading and occupying Japan really needed?
On 8/6/2021 8:17 AM, someone wrote:
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down..."
----
50 eyewitness accounts from Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
A little discussed fact of the Hiroshima bombing is
that there were two B-29's that flew over the city
that day. >
Hiroshima had the highest density of servicemen to
civilians in Japan. It was the Headquarters of
Field General Hata's Second General Army, built up
to oppose the US.
About 43,000 soldiers were in the city.
Many were doing their morning P.T. training
on the parade grounds when the bomb went off.
Try factual non fiction:
https://www.amazon.com/Downfall-End-Imperial-Japanese-Empire/dp/0141001461
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
– May 1, 2001
by Richard B. Frank
In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly
declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to
the dropping of the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders
learned in the summer of 1945 that their alternate strategy to end the
war by invasion had been shattered by the massive Japanese buildup on
Kyushu, and that intercepted diplomatic documents also revealed the
dismal prospects of negotiation. Here also, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how Japan's leaders were willing to risk
complete annihilation to preserve the nation's existing order. Frank's comprehensive account demolishes long-standing myths with the stark
realities of this great historical controversy.
On 8/6/2021 1:52 PM, a425couple wrote:
On 8/6/2021 8:17 AM, Jonathan wrote:
----
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down..."
50 eyewitness accounts from Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
A little discussed fact of the Hiroshima bombing is
that there were two B-29's that flew over the city
that day. >
Hiroshima had the highest density of servicemen to
civilians in Japan. It was the Headquarters of
Field General Hata's Second General Army, built up
to oppose the US.
About 43,000 soldiers were in the city.
Many were doing their morning P.T. training
on the parade grounds when the bomb went off.
But it's difficult to justify carpet bombing
cities from a moral or legal view.
On 8/6/2021 8:17 AM, someone wrote:
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down..."
----
50 eyewitness accounts from Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
A little discussed fact of the Hiroshima bombing is
that there were two B-29's that flew over the city
that day. >
Hiroshima had the highest density of servicemen to
civilians in Japan. It was the Headquarters of
Field General Hata's Second General Army, built up
to oppose the US.
About 43,000 soldiers were in the city.
Many were doing their morning P.T. training
on the parade grounds when the bomb went off.
Try factual non fiction:
https://www.amazon.com/Downfall-End-Imperial-Japanese-Empire/dp/0141001461
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
– May 1, 2001
by Richard B. Frank
In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously
detailed explanation of the critical months leading up to the dropping of
the atomic bomb. Frank explains how American leaders learned in the summer
of 1945 that their alternate strategy to end the war by invasion had been shattered by the massive Japanese buildup on Kyushu, and that intercepted diplomatic documents also revealed the dismal prospects of negotiation.
Here also, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how Japan's leaders were willing to risk complete annihilation to preserve the
nation's existing order. Frank's comprehensive account demolishes long-standing myths with the stark realities of this great historical controversy.
On 8/6/2021 1:52 PM, a425couple wrote:
On 8/6/2021 8:17 AM, Jonathan wrote:
----
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down..."
50 eyewitness accounts from Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
A little discussed fact of the Hiroshima bombing is
that there were two B-29's that flew over the city
that day. >
Hiroshima had the highest density of servicemen to
civilians in Japan. It was the Headquarters of
Field General Hata's Second General Army, built up
to oppose the US.
About 43,000 soldiers were in the city.
Many were doing their morning P.T. training
on the parade grounds when the bomb went off.
But it's difficult to justify carpet bombing
cities from a moral or legal view.
On 8/6/2021 8:17 AM, someone wrote:
"I heard a voice shout, "A parachute is coming down..."
----
50 eyewitness accounts from Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
A little discussed fact of the Hiroshima bombing is
that there were two B-29's that flew over the city
that day. >
Hiroshima had the highest density of servicemen to
civilians in Japan. It was the Headquarters of
Field General Hata's Second General Army, built up
to oppose the US.
About 43,000 soldiers were in the city.
Many were doing their morning P.T. training
on the parade grounds when the bomb went off.
And less than 10% of the casualties were soldiers.
https://www.amazon.com/Downfall-End-Imperial-Japanese-Empire/dp/0141001461Try factual non fiction:
declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanation of the critical months leading up toDownfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
– May 1, 2001
by Richard B. Frank
In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly
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Many of the things you say are from very old,
and now proven incorrect sources.
And less than 10% of the casualties were soldiers.
Where in the world did you get that information from?
from Frank, page 267,
"Little Boy caught thousands of soldiers doing morning
calisthenics, It totally flattened the headquarters
of the Second General Army at Hiroshima Castle, and a
intercepted message later disclosed that the entire army staff,
from Field Marshall Hata on down had been injured. The
bomb killed the commander of the Fifty-ninth Army,
Lieutenant General Yoji Fujii, whose "burnt sword was
found alongside his charred remains."
"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message news:sf0irp$su6$1@dont-email.me...
...
Compare Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Japanese reprisals for the
Doolittle raid.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/american-doolittle-raid.html
"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message news:sf0irp$su6$1@dont-email.me...
...
Compare Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the Japanese reprisals for the Doolittle raid.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/american-doolittle-raid.html
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