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re: 70 Years Ago Today, the U.S. Army Air Corps Made Tokyo Howl
Posted on 3/9/15 at 1:01 pm to LoveThatMoney
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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Posted on 3/9/15 at 1:05 pm to Team Vote
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quote: 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.
Great point. The government of Japan was training the civilian population to carry out suicide attacks against US forces when the invasion finally came. They were even teaching school children to carry out mass "banzai" attacks armed with nothing but sharpened bamboo spears. The death toll for the Japanese people would have been far worse had we invaded than it was from the bombings.
This post was edited on 3/9/15 at 1:07 pm
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