Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japan Was Imperative

Sorry about that, but I’ll stick with the perspective of the Greatest Generation and their parents who sacrificed while living through this history as related in last two paragraphs below from my essay.

By the way those two cities would be considered military targets within the meaning of the Third Geneva Convention based on the then ability to precision bomb, but that is another essay. I’ll agree about Dresden though, because the map I saw shows the military targets and worker housing were I think towards the north, northwest, and west of the central area the British chose for their night raid. I think the city should have been on the U.S. list for a daylight attack. London was as much stupid as immoral, because Hitler abandoned the target plans that would have degraded the British ability to wage war and feed themselves.

“The moral failure of a negotiated peace requiring anything less than total submission was unacceptable. Allowing a blockade to operate interminably, while deferring to the War Faction any decision about whether Japanese and allied prisoner deaths met their 20 million standards was intolerable. Allowing months of diplomatic dithering to accompany additional hundreds of thousands of civilian and military deaths throughout Asia was intolerable. An imperial, militarist Japan could not be allowed to intimidate future generations when they were on the cusp of producing nuclear weapons.

Allowing the premeditated ignorance of revisionists center stage as the institutional knowledge of the Greatest Generation and their parents and grandparents dies away must remain intolerable.”

I have this interview of Paul Tibbets by a guy named Studs Terkel. In answer to one question Tibbets includes in his answer, “then Tom Ferebee has to fill out his bombardier’s report and Dutch, the navigator, has to fill out a log. Tom is working on his log and says, ‘Dutch, what time were we over the target?’ And Dutch says, ‘Nine-fifteen plus 15 seconds… ‘Ferebee says: ‘what lousy navigating. Fifteen seconds off!’” So it looks like there is one hour difference.

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