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re: 75 years ago right now....The city of Hiroshima disappeared from the face of the earth....
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:39 pm to Mike da Tigah
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:39 pm to Mike da Tigah
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dropped, killing 150-200 k people, but don’t say shite about the fire bombing of Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan killing way more civilian lives, upwards of almost a million human beings, and displacing far more than that.
The firebombings were also very necessary. Conventional war tactics were not going to make them surrender until every last citizen in that country was dead. Midway took away their ability to conduct offensive operations for the rest of the war, yet they kept fighting for another three years after that.
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Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:40 pm to VADawg
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The firebombings were also very necessary. Conventional war tactics were not going to make them surrender until every last citizen in that country was dead. Midway took away their ability to conduct offensive operations for the rest of the war, yet they kept fighting for another three years after that.
With the Japanese? Hell yeah it was necessary.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 8:50 pm to VADawg
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The firebombings were also very necessary. Conventional war tactics were not going to make them surrender until every last citizen in that country was dead. Midway took away their ability to conduct offensive operations for the rest of the war, yet they kept fighting for another three years after that.
In 3 years, we went from the small Doolittle Raid in '42 with minimal impact to a mission in '45 with over 300 bombers that killed over 100,000 people.
The growth of the American war machine was absolutely astonishing.
Posted on 8/5/20 at 9:12 pm to VADawg
The firebombing of Tokyo and other Japanese cities was also necessary because the Japanese had lost a lot of their large factories in earlier bombings and had started switching to "cottage" industry war production. So you could have three or four smaller factories in a residential neighborhood even down to individual houses containing machine shops and machine tooling to continue producing things for the Japanese war machine.
As for war crimes and other heinous shite look into Unit 731, and what they did in China.
As for war crimes and other heinous shite look into Unit 731, and what they did in China.
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