Posted on 08/05/2016 11:46:13 PM PDT by mkjessup
71 years ago, the crew of the B-29 Enola Gay under the command of Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, operating under General Curtis LeMay, dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare on Hiroshima Japan.
We all know (or should know) the story. Today's sob sisters and history revisionists all make the same whining and wailing excuses for why America should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan, but just like the radioactive dust those bombs produced, the opinions of such low lifes will also eventually dissipate into the insignificant categories of history.
And God Bless President Harry Truman for having the guts to authorize the mission not only on Hiroshima, but 3 days later on Nagasaki, thus ending the War in the Pacific.
THANKS for those pictures FRiend, I envy you being able to actually visit and see that history, and good to see the Nagasaki bomb preparation site commemorated (interestingly enough, in 1985 during the Reagan Administration), that should rightly be consider ‘holy ground’ so far as I’m concerned.
Thanks again and have a good weekend.
My pleasure!
My Tinian visit was some major coolness and really only comparable to the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The only way I would have a different story is if I had gotten to dive on the U.S.S. Saratoga at Bikini. (just couldnt make it happen)
Bull! You are arguing the revisionists point of view even with the /s behind your statement. When you put things into people’s minds there are always some wimps who will see the so called”humanitarian” point of view. It isn’t enough that the meaning of the word “Gay” has been totally and irrevocably changed in order to suit a miserable minority of citizens. “Gay Paris,” “Our Hearts Were Young and Gay,” etc. etc. ad infinitum. How many AMERICAN LIVES WERE SAVED because we dropped TWO BOMBS on Japan? Hiroshima wasn’t enough to convince their Military leaders that the war was OVER! Thy started it and WE finished it. They deserve what they got!
I met Gen Tibbets just a few years before he passed away.
Wow, what an honor that must have been.
I was indeed honored to converse with him!
He also signed two books for me, and let my (late)hubby take our picture together (which I can’t even find now...oh well), but it REALLY DID happen.
Fukushima is Japan’s gift to the world. Three 100 ton nuclear cores blasting the sea and air for decades.
Have you Geiger Countered your food lately?
Yes, and it’s almost always ignored that Truman’s action saved tons of Japanese lives, too, probably at least a couple of million lives. Not to mention countless lives of various Asian populations and our Allies, etc. Also, although Truman may not have known this, Japanese prison camp commanders were under orders to execute all their prisoners upon the invasion of Japan.
Sure, Truman was thinking primarily of ending the war for Americans, but the atomic bombings were also moral in averting vast carnage for the Japanese, too.
Probably several millions of Japanese lives were saved, it’s difficult to make a firm estimate but judging from Okinawa where 120,000 Japanese lost their lives, the bloodshed on the home islands with both military and civilians fighting to the death would have been astronomical.
I don’t either. Until people refuse to go along with the dictatorship of a petite minority, insanity will continue to prevail. All it takes is to refuse to “go along to get along.”
Coincidentally, when I was in my first Navy fleet squadron, VF-111 Sundowners, our CV hosted a Japanese-American friendship day aboard the ship when in port Yokuska. Some of our visitors asked why the sunbursts were painted on the tails of our aircraft. The real reason is the squadron (then designated VF-11) waxed the Japs during the Marianas Turkey Shoot. We told them it was in honor of friendship day ;)
love the photo, and the story!
My great-uncle was in the 32nd “Red Arrow” infantry division throughout the war, and they were in the Philipines in the summer of ‘45 preparing to take part in the invasion of Japan. They actually fought more combat days than any other US unit in WWII, I believe. Anyway, they were quite relieved to avoid the invasion after having fought through New Guinea and the Philipines. They ended up being sent to Japan as part of the occupation force instead of as an invasion force. My mother’s family joined countless millions of Americans in being grateful for the atomic bombings!!
My father fought in concert with your great uncle. He was a member of the 31st Infantry “Dixie” Division. New Guinea, Morotai, P.I./Mindanao.
cool.... that was some really tough terrain and combat....
it was Karma that Japan got nuked in World War II. it would have been more appropriate if the Allies had wiped out all major cities with nuclear weapons. If we had had them. For over two and a half centuries Japan hierarchy brutally slaughtered possibly millions of Christians. More than just killing themthe shogun’s sought to make them renounce their faith publiclyand so they tortured them in ways almost unimaginable. almost wiping out the entire Christian population of Japan in those days. As far as I’m concerned it was very appropriate to Nuke the bastards
Agree with you 100 percent Leo.
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