(08-07-2015 04:33 PM)Fitbud Wrote: (08-07-2015 02:59 PM)JMUDunk Wrote: (08-07-2015 12:09 PM)VA49er Wrote: Sucks as all get out but what was the alternative, an invasion of the Japanese mainland?
Yup, and the plans were already well underway. My Dad would have been part of it.
Absolutely justified. Long run it saved lives overall.
How does killing 200, 000 civilians save lives?
Good grief, don't you purport to actually
teach history of some sort? Yet you know next to nothing about it?
One quick nugget- The tiny island of Iwo-Jima, you ever heard of that?
There's a pretty famous statue commemorating it, it's easily googled if you'd like to take a look.
5 weeks to take this little place, probably about the size of a College Campus or so. 25,000 dead. From both sides. Nearly 20k alone of Japanese.
Another quick nugget- battle to take Okinawa. A few weeks after the blood bath on Iwo Jima, this one about 2 1/2 months long. Somewhere around 100,000 dead. Yes, taking the island of Okinawa was 100k.
So tell me, teach. You don't think invading the Japanese mainland would have cost more than 200k? It may well have been in the multiple of
Millions instead.
Gawd, man, open a history book once in a while.
You're welcome, today's lernin' is over.