"a425couple" wrote in message news:v%bMJ.39139$%uX7.31440@fx38.iad...
Stacy Tidwell
Did the pilots/bombers who flew over Hiroshima and Nagasaki have any
regret?
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My father, an Ordnance company commander on Okinawa, drove his Jeep out
to pick up the crew of a B-29 that had made a difficult emergency
landing there. He said he'd never seen an uninjured crew so shocked and subdued. It might have been Bock's Car. Of course they couldn't tell him anything.
The way the Japanese had fought to the death for almost every island
strongly suggested that invading Japan would trigger an unprecedented bloodbath, far worse than the atomic bombing.
"a425couple" wrote in message news:v%bMJ.39139$%uX7.31440@fx38.iad...
Stacy Tidwell
Did the pilots/bombers who flew over Hiroshima and Nagasaki have any
regret?
--------------------
My father, an Ordnance company commander on Okinawa, drove his Jeep out to pick up the crew of a B-29 that had made a difficult emergency landing
there. He said he'd never seen an uninjured crew so shocked and subdued.
It might have been Bock's Car. Of course they couldn't tell him anything.
The way the Japanese had fought to the death for almost every island
strongly suggested that invading Japan would trigger an unprecedented bloodbath, far worse than the atomic bombing.
"a425couple" wrote in message news:gVuMJ.8861$yi_7.4624@fx39.iad...
On 2/7/2022 9:33 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"a425couple" wrote in message news:v%bMJ.39139$%uX7.31440@fx38.iad...
Stacy Tidwell
Did the pilots/bombers who flew over Hiroshima and Nagasaki have any
regret?
--------------------
My father, an Ordnance company commander on Okinawa, drove his Jeep
out to pick up the crew of a B-29 that had made a difficult emergency
landing there. He said he'd never seen an uninjured crew so shocked
and subdued. It might have been Bock's Car. Of course they couldn't
tell him anything.
The way the Japanese had fought to the death for almost every island
strongly suggested that invading Japan would trigger an unprecedented
bloodbath, far worse than the atomic bombing.
Yes, indeed.
For the last year and a half of the war, Imperial Japan
was only trying to prove to the USA that they were willing
to endure more deaths on both sides, then we could stand.
They wanted the US to accept a peace that left the
militarists in power, without punishment, and their
occupation of China.
April Fool, the USA surprised them with a new weapon.
Also, the pacifists / anti bombers do not wish to consider
the over 100,000+ people living in Japanese occupied
lands that were being killed each month by the Japanese
or the fact that Japan still held about 100,000 US, UK,
Australia, and Dutch and they were rapidly killing
them. Japan was resolved to not let any POWs be
repatriated. We owed a debt to our brothers in arms
to try to save their lives.
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https://irp.fas.org/eprint/arens/chap4.htm
"Furthermore, when the enemy actually lands, if we are ready to
sacrifice a million men we will be able to inflict an equal number of casualties upon them. If the enemy loses a million men, then the public opinion in America will become inclined towards peace, and Japan will be
able to gain peace with comparatively advantageous conditions."
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