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oohrah wrote: ↑Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:47 am

aero10 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:40 pm The Japanese didn't have to bomb Pearl Harbor.

When I was stationed in Japan, I took my family to visit the Peace Park and A-bomb dome. My 9yo daughter was horrified, and asked how we could do such a thing. On the way home, we stopped in Oahu for R&R, and we visited the USS Arizona Memorial. After the history presentation, my daughter looked up at me and said "Now I understand".

Another uncle who was at Bataan and survived the POW camps would have told her why he wished we had dropped more.

philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 07, 2020 3:45 pm https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... omic-bombs

But we did it anyway, says Los Angeles Times. Japan would have surrendered without dropping the bomb.

My uncle was excited when we dropped the bomb. He was assigned to go in the night before the invasion of japan and clear the beaches of mines and obstacles for the landing. They were told they would suffer a 100% casualty rate. As it was, his united helped clear the beaches after the war and suffered 50% casualties. He stayed in Japan several years after the war and even married a Japanese lady. He said the Japanese would not have surrendered without the bombs.