For people who don't like the fact we nuked Japan

There’s video footage of school children and women doing military exercises with sharpened bamboo sticks.

You better believe we would need all of those 500,000 Purple Hearts if not more

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The bomb saved a lot of lives.

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That's surely what our corrupt government wanted you to think. The real reason was that Russia was about to attack Japan and we did not want them controlling it. We wanted to control it instead. At the least, 50% of what government tells you is bullshite.

The fire bombings were more devastating hitting over 60 cities.

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TOKYO — It was not Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but in many ways, including lives lost, it was just as horrific.

On March 10, 1945, U.S. B-29 bombers flew over Tokyo in the dead of night, dumping massive payloads of cluster bombs equipped with a then-recent invention: napalm. A fifth of Tokyo was left a smoldering expanse of charred bodies and rubble.

Today, a modest floral monument in a downtown park honors the spirits of the 105,400 confirmed dead, many interred in common graves.

It was the deadliest conventional air raid ever, worse than Nagasaki and on par with Hiroshima. But the attack, and similar ones that followed in more than 60 other Japanese cities, have received little attention, eclipsed by the atomic bombings and Japan's postwar rush to rebuild.

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I always heard that the War Department had put in an order for over 1,000,000 body bags for the proposed overall Operation Downfall.

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That's probably right. But body bags can be used a lot more often than purple hearts. The estimates were based on Okinawa casualties plus estimates of Japanese defenses.
When the war ended and we arrived in Japan we found out their the defenses were MUCH better than we estimated.

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That's surely what our corrupt government wanted you to think. The real reason was that Russia was about to attack Japan and we did not want them controlling it. We wanted to control it instead. At the least, 50% of what government tells you is bullshite.

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This doesn't make the point "bullshite."

We weren't not going to invade Mainland Japan as well, regardless of what Russia's intentions may have been.

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That's how many casualties we estimated for our invasion of Japan. The bomb saved a lot of lives.

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That's the low end estimate. There is a chance that a full invasion of the Japanese home islands would have required us to kill a lot of Japanese civilians as well.

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Japan was as ruthless as any country involved in WW2

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There's an argument to be made that the WW2 era Japanese were the most barbaric society in the last 1000 years. Some of the shite they did to POWs would have made Hitler cringe.

Japan was a dick during that era.

Slaughtered millions of Chinese. Enslaved millions more.

Japan was a legit war nation.

Without the shock and awe from the nukes, I don't think they give up. They were absolutely tenacious.

Those that ACTUALLY run governments have put morality as a last choice if it is a choice at all! Why do you think they always want to disarm the populace? Government Elites only do what they need to maintain their own status and history is what they say it is! Politicians are only SHOWPIECES to entertain the populace and give them the illusion that they are somewhat free. This is the reality of what and how societies are controlled. Don't ever be disarmed because of these truths!

MacArthur pushed the island hopping campaign, instead of bypassing & then circling back to pick them off at the Navy's leisure. There'a reason so many of our troops who fought under him hated him with a passion. Body bag projections was something he never bothered with. Ike had very little to no inside information on the war in the Pacific. He had no actual experience in fighting the Japs & what that warfare entailed.