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re: 70 Years Ago Today, the U.S. Army Air Corps Made Tokyo Howl
Posted on 3/9/15 at 12:57 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 3/9/15 at 12:57 pm to Darth_Vader
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One thing about Japan at that time is they had a lot of their war production outsourced into people's homes. Instead of having a lot of big factories that made things, a lot of their war materials were made in literally thousands of little workshops in people's homes. Their thinking here was this "decentralization of production" would deny the U.S. big easy targets to go after. The U.S. countered this move by simply bombing everyfrickingthing.
Not that it wasn't war and war is hell and everything, but man, that's a lot of civilian dead. This is awful.
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Posted on 3/9/15 at 1:01 pm to LoveThatMoney
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Not that it wasn't war and war is hell and everything, but man, that's a lot of civilian dead. This is awful.
It truly is. Even when combined with the A-bomb tolls, still a small number compared to the civilian and military casualties that would havc resulted from a US invasion of Japan.
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