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Nuking Japan in WWII saved nearly 500,000 GI's...FACT
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:27 pm
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:27 pm
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During World War II, nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the estimated casualties resulting from the planned Allied invasion of Japan. To the present date, total combined American military casualties of the seventy years following the end of World War II—including the Korean and Vietnam Wars—have not exceeded that number. In 2003, there remained 120,000 Purple Heart medals in stock. The existing surplus allowed combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan to keep Purple Hearts on-hand for immediate award to soldiers wounded in the field.
WIKI
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Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:30 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that bomb.
NB4iwishtheyneverdroppedthebomb
NB4iwishtheyneverdroppedthebomb
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:31 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
what is this Facebook now?
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:32 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Ib4 hardcore history reference
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:32 pm to upgrayedd
Operation downfall is extremely interesting. Would have made Normandy seem small.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:35 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
damn interesting tidbit there...better them than us...
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:41 pm to Spankum
Well, it's not exactly a fact, but a lot of Americans would have died. Maybe 500k, maybe not.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:45 pm to Chucktown_Badger
quote:And probably several million of the enemy
Well, it's not exactly a fact, but a lot of Americans would have died. Maybe 500k, maybe not.
so it saved Japanese lives as well
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:48 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Japan picked the fight. They got what was coming to them.
I feel sorry for the innocent ones who died, but that's war. Don't bite it off if you can't chew it.
I feel sorry for the innocent ones who died, but that's war. Don't bite it off if you can't chew it.
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:48 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Link to evidence?
Posted on 6/28/16 at 11:52 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
So the number of purple hearts manufactured has a direct correlation to who would have died?
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:52 am to jmarto1
Sounds like it's given to killed OR INJURED. So there's that...it's not just killed.
Regardless,
quote:
Search Results Image result for what are purple hearts awarded for The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the armed forces of the U.S. who are wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy and posthumously to the next of kin in the name of those who are killed in action or die of wounds received in action. It is specifica lly a combat decoration.
Regardless,
This post was edited on 6/29/16 at 12:52 am
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:56 am to Chucktown_Badger
Yea, injured gets a purple heart.
My grandpa had a few. Nazis were pretty good at shooting him.
My grandpa had a few. Nazis were pretty good at shooting him.
Posted on 6/29/16 at 12:59 am to Teddy Ruxpin
but not killing him
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:01 am to Chucktown_Badger
quote:
Sounds like it's given to killed OR INJURED. So there's that...it's not just killed.
Well duh.
Can't drive around with a purple heart licence tag if you're dead
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:02 am to Cockopotamus
quote:
Can't drive around with a purple heart licence tag if you're dead
Your next of kin can (according to my quote).
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:06 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Facts are factual
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:22 am to Chucktown_Badger
quote:
Your next of kin can (according to my quote).
Meh.
I actually didn't know the purple heart was given posthumously. Thought it was just given to injured servicemen
Posted on 6/29/16 at 1:28 am to TigersOfGeauxld
With the exception of children, we should not treat citizens of the japanese empire as innocent people. Unlike many germans, the japanese people KNEW and were willing accomplices to the evil.
Japanese culture at the time was insane and crazy. Civilians were essentially soldiers and would have fought us if we invaded.
They were not innocent people.
Japanese culture at the time was insane and crazy. Civilians were essentially soldiers and would have fought us if we invaded.
They were not innocent people.
Posted on 6/29/16 at 3:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
It saved millions of Japanese lives also. The Japanese would have never surrendered and fought until the last man standing.
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