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We should have dropped three bombs

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Posted By: Heil Liberals, 8/4/2023 1:52:10 PM

Sunday marks the 78th anniversary of the Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Three days later, we dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The Japanese warlords still voted 3-3 on surrendering. Intervention by the emperor ended the war and the Japanese told the allies it planned to surrender, which it did on September 2. With the new movie Oppenheimer’s debut last month and the end of the teaching of American history in a positive light, lefties have resurrected the argument against using the A-bomb to end World War II.

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It was the right thing to do, period.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: spacer 8/4/2023 2:30:36 PM (No. 1527423)
Gut wrenching detail. It's why war IS hell. A fascinating bit of heroism by one of the scientist and she just happened to be a QUALIFIED lady. And pregnant !!!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Maggie2u 8/4/2023 2:31:35 PM (No. 1527424)
An interesting factoid I just read about a week ago. Since 1945, 370,000 Purple Hearts have been awarded for the Korean War, Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the War on Terror. All of those Purple Hearts were manufactured to be given to our soldiers and sailors wounded in the invasion of Japan. There are 120,000 Purple Hearts remaining. Think about that. And that was for the wounded, no telling how many hundreds of thousands more would have been killed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: cmardh 8/4/2023 3:02:05 PM (No. 1527445)
Poke the bull...get the horn.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: BarryNo 8/4/2023 3:27:17 PM (No. 1527452)
Though not revealed, my understanding was a third bomb was in route to the front. Three was all we had, at that time. The whole point was to stop MacArthur from starting his genocidal mainland invasion. The concern, admittedly was over US casualties, but something like 10 million Japanese also survived, who otherwise, wouldn't have.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 8/4/2023 5:29:09 PM (No. 1527481)
I worked in the weapon industry for over three decades. Not once did I even slightly regret that we dropped the bombs on Japan. They MORE than earned what they got. My father was about four days from his fighter squadron embarking on their aircraft carrier (one of lver 100 aircraft carriers we had at that time) to head to the invasion of Japan. I don't know if he'd have survived the invasion as a USN fighter pilot. If not, I and my siblings would never have been born. I have ZERO problems with nuking the Japanese. They were extremely evil in their treatment of citizens of other countries, racist on a scale that is difficult for modern Americans to even believe....but it happened. Were all Japanese this way? No, but their military standard operating procedures were, and killing as many of them as possible was a good thing. As Surber says at the end. Don't start wars if you are going to whine about what blows back on you.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Kate318 8/4/2023 5:43:17 PM (No. 1527492)
I still have my Dad’s Purple Heart, #2. He fought in the Pacific…Guam. I have his DDY papers, too.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: udanja99 8/4/2023 7:03:16 PM (No. 1527545)
How many of us would not be here today if our fathers or grandfathers had been forced to invade the Japanese mainland?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bpl40 8/4/2023 8:16:08 PM (No. 1527571)
My father was in a PoW camp somewhere in Malaya. Japanese ‘Death Squads’ were slowly advancing from camp to camp beheading officers because it was dishonorable for a Japanese Officer to go home without the blood of an enemy of equal rank on his sword. My father and fellow officers had made plans to escape into the jungle with whatever rations they could muster. The date was 15 th August, 1945. Which is when a local Chinese man came to camp fence and gestured, raising his hands that Japan had surrendered. These officers immediately canceled their plans and demanded an audience with the camp commandant. Which was refused. The Japanese colonel later committed harakiri. If the mob wasn’t dropped I wouldn’t be writing this.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: bpl40 8/4/2023 8:18:53 PM (No. 1527573)
Of course I mean the bomb.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Ned Scott 8/4/2023 11:18:13 PM (No. 1527616)
I remember reading in “Truman,” a biography of the 33rd POTUS by the late David McCullough that Harry Truman said that if he had authorized the invasion of Japan by US forces and hundreds of thousands of more American serviceman would have been killed and wounded in the brutal fighting on the Japanese mainland, that the American people would never forgive President Truman for proceeding with an amphibious invasion of Japan when the atomic bomb could have ended the war without additional American casualties. Harry Truman also stated that the decision to commit US forces to fight the North Korean invaders of South Korea in 1950 was a far more difficult decision to make than the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Lawsy0 8/5/2023 12:01:58 AM (No. 1527633)
Significant to learn that Japanese warriors also thought they couldn't beat the USA.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: MissMann 8/5/2023 12:26:16 AM (No. 1527636)
If you think the nuking of Japan was unnecessary, I suggest you read "Unbroken," to see how many Americans were saved by those bombs, and "The Rape of Nanking," to understand just who the Japanese were in WWII.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Sully 8/5/2023 6:07:54 AM (No. 1527689)
Critics who oppose the bombing do so from comfy chairs. When an aggressor nation run by a suicide death cult declares war, you are not obligated to fight on their terms. Japan refused to concede until we demonstrated that their suicides would not take us with them. All I can tell you, as the child of a WWII Navy veteran who would certainly have been part of that invasion of Japan against the suicides, and who's Dad most likely would have died there, is that I am grateful for my life.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: slsusnr 8/5/2023 7:02:12 AM (No. 1527699)
Re poster #4, the MacArthur haters come out. Predictable. These people are like Trump Derangement Syndrome or Bush Derangement Syndrome robots. I've read a lot about General MacArthur over the years. I don't love him or hate him. To poster #4, I ask, If we hadn't continued to firebomb the country or invade it, how else would we have stopped the war? I've never heard of an alternative plan. As horrible as fire-bombing Tokyo was, it didn't have the desired effect. The "shock and awe" of nukes did the job, finally. Put yourself in Truman's shoes, AT THAT TIME. What would you do?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: mifla 8/5/2023 7:05:34 AM (No. 1527701)
WWII history is a hobby of mine. I also read alternative history books for entertainment. In that vein, what if we had the atomic bomb in 1941 and the Japanese did not know that we had it? NY Time headline on December 10th, 1941: Japan Surrenders Unconditionally.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: franq 8/5/2023 8:01:12 AM (No. 1527730)
Oppenheimer would probably be a good movie, but I read that there is an explicit sex scene. What that has to do with the atomic bomb, I'm not sure. Maybe the explosion motif.
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