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To the American haters, the facts don't matter. They will ignore everything. They will repeat the same opinion over and over. A vague comment they are unable to substantiate.Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was no different than bombing Toyko, Nagoya, Bremerhaven, Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Florence or any other Axis city. Or on the other side, London, Birmingham, Warsaw (which wasn't even defended as it had been declared an open city) Manila, Shanghai, Hong Kong or any of the other hundreds of allied cities bombed by the Axis powers. Bombing cities in WWII was indiscriminate and was done by both sides. But you might notice that the first city bombed by the Germans in WWII was the open city of Warsaw and the Japanese were bombing defenseless Chinese cities long before they attacked the USA.
You don't know that....
If we followed their opinion, 10's of thousands of Americans die and 10x's as many Japanese.
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America is and was great. We warned the civilians in Japan that we would destroy thier cities. Nagasaki and Hiroshima, warned.Here is something both sides of the destruction of Japan argument forget or do not know. We warned the Japanese to surrender and to evacuate their cities. Leaflets warning of bombing to come. Leaflets showing the Potsdam declaration warning to surrender or face complete destruction. There was also radio broadcasts stating the same.
After securing the island, US forces remained on Saipan, guarding Japanese prisoners of war, constructing a huge airbase, staging bombing runs, and supporting the civilian OWI psychological warfare effort. From Saipan, OWI bombarded Japan with radio messages through its 50,000-watt standard-wave station on Saipan, Radio KSAI. The station also picked up 100,000-watt shortwave transmissions from the OWI station in Honolulu and relayed them to Japan. Japanese language broadcasts consisted of news on the status of the war, bombing warnings, and messages from Japanese prisoners of war on Saipan urging surrender. KSAI radio transmissions served many purposes: to Japan’s civilian government, they were a vital source of news, received at a time when the fanaticism of the Japanese militarists denied civilian leaders access to information about the status of the war; to hidden Japanese soldiers on occupied Pacific islands, they tempted surrender by promising fair treatment as prisoners of war;The Information War in the Pacific, 1945 — Central Intelligence Agency
The Information War in the Pacific, 1945www.cia.gov
America is and was great. We warned the civilians in Japan that we would destroy thier cities. Nagasaki and Hiroshima, warned.
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor would reportedly write in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Actually, he never said or wrote that.
While he is well known as believing that ultimately Japan had no chance at beating the US if the war went longer than six months. But that and many other quotes are entirely fictitious.
Gordon Prange was a historian on General MacArthur's staff during the occupation, and that among many others were attributed to him and other during his time as the chief historian of the occupation. However, not one has ever been verified, and are now considered to be entirely made up by Prange.
That quote was largely forgotten, until after the 1970 movie "Tora, Tora, Tora". Only at that time did historians try to look into it, and could find not a single quote even close to that in any of his writings. Just like the "blade of grass" quote, the Admiral never said it.
We warned them then mass murdered defenseless women and children. We’re so great!America is and was great. We warned the civilians in Japan that we would destroy thier cities. Nagasaki and Hiroshima, warned.
The fanatics, sad, 1,000's of Japanese children dead. Do you weep for the children in Japan? Are they crocodile tears? How did they all die.We warned them then mass murdered defenseless women and children. We’re so great!
No. The bombs saved no one. That’s a fact few Americans know or will accept.The fanatics, sad, 1,000's of Japanese children dead. Do you weep for the children in Japan? Are they crocodile tears? How did the all die.
The children's heads were crushed by rocks heaved upon them.
Some children were lucky enough to die by hand grenade.
Other Japanese children were forced or thrown off of cliffs.
Some Japanese children were killed by sword.
True stories even if lacking details. Okinawa and Taiwan made the reality clear. There would be no surrender and suicide was the action being taken by the military and civilians alike.
Yes, the atomic bombs killed children, yet the atomic bombs saved many more.
The irony of war.
Well that is the problem , you wanted us to surrender to Japan.No. The bombs saved no one. That’s a fact few Americans know or will accept.
If only Dirty Harry had accepted Japan’s surrender demands BEFORE he mass murdered all those defenseless women and children, rather than AFTER he committed his war crime.
Lol. Surrender? Lol. Apparently you like killing babies.Well that is the problem , you wanted us to surrender to Japan.
And in your statement you state Japan as if the country was unified. That was not the case. Japan was controlled by the military. The military not once offered to surrender.
The emperor never offered to surrender.
At best you have, "someone" asking if the USA was willing to stop, or essentially surrender.
As far as saving lives, that is pretty clear, it certainly saved Japanese lives but more importantly than that it saved Americans lives.
Did you see the word "reportedly" on to post you linked to?
No. The bombs saved no one.
Yes, I did. And I was responding that that is incorrect, that it was not him.
Just putting in "reportedly" does not make a false claim any more valid.
Just yoursLol. Surrender? Lol. Apparently you like killing babies.
You admit to wanting to kill babies. Good for you.Just yours
The sins of others never justify sin.
We cannot fathom the argument that because X committed an antrocity it is ok for Y.
"Context"? The war in the Pacific is the context. In that context, certain sites were bypassed because invasion was unnecessary. Certain islands were isolated, cut off, unable to resupply. At the end, this principle applied to Japan itself. There was no necessity of invasion, thus no necessity to save "a million G.I.s", as their lives would not be in danger. And this is so deafeningly clear that all argument to the contrary devolves to mere racist vengeance.
Who and what was the real threat to the U.S. in August of 1945?
I wonder if there are any Prisoners of War still alive.
The more you educate yourself on our history, the more you realize we’ve been lied to.Not as such.
There might still be a few who remained in North Korea, and the same in Vietnam. But they would not have been prisoners for decades, simply those that decided to remain there.
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