Posted on 08/06/2023 7:01:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I doubt the veracity of these quotes.
I simply do not believe these quotes. LeMay? And Hap Arnold? No way.
More attempts by the left at revisionist history.
Sounds like BS to me.
Because it is.
These quotes are fake and the entire article is a lie.
I most likely wouldn’t be alive if not for the Bomb - they were fixin’ to pull my dad from the victorious European campaign to invade Japan. Any idea how difficult that invasion would be? Remember Iwo Jima? Or virtually every other Pacific Island in WW2? Multiply it times 10 because it’s the homeland.
My bullshit meter pegged on this one!
Countless historians dispute the argument in this article. Without the bomb the U.S. would have been fighting Japanese guerillas for years.
NONSENSE!
After the 2nd bomb, Japan SURRENDERED!!!!
So I guess they worked.
From what I remember from my grandpas( Colonel US army, doctor) friends and history Hirohito and company didn’t even surrender after Hiroshima.
Kinda late now.
Also seem to remember Japan arming everyone on the island. They were ready to keep fighting like the samurai’s they were.
I doubt the veracity of these quotes.
I agree. I don’t think Eisenhower or LeMay were in the decision loop. As for Leahy and the rest, why did they not make these objections to Truman himself?
All liars. The Japanese themselves were thankful for the bomb to end the war. The crazy Emperor would have kept it going until everyone was killed. Thank God for the bomb.
Also:
“According to his pilot, General Douglas MacArthur, commander of US Army Forces Pacific, was “appalled and depressed by this Frankenstein monster.”
Maybe so? But wasn’t MacArthur asking to nuke Korea about seven years later?
Japan’s surrender without the Bomb was not predetermined. Even with it, there was a coup attempt to try to prevent the broadcast, with IIRC a firefight on the Imperial Palace grounds.
Also if IIRC, the US underestimated the defenses on Kyushu. American and Japanese casualties in Operation OLYMPIC would have been severe.
(Not to mention a Typhoon hit Okinawa about a month before the scheduled date of the Kyushu invasion. It did severe damage to the occupation forces. Had Okinawa been packed with troops for the invasion, casualties and damage would have been even more severe.)
This article is revisionist tripe.
Revisionists have been cherry-picking quotes for 70+ years.
The Navy was jealous because The Bomb took all the glory they coveted. Granted they got us within bomber range, but it was LeMay who crippled the homeland’s military machinery. The Navy couldn’t deliver 1% of the bombs on target that the B-29s could in any given day.
I’ve seen some of these. However, I’d like to hear from the Marines who were scheduled to hit the beaches.
They also sent a warning to the soviets.’s
I hope no one believes this absurd revisionism.
The emperor/god Hirohito noted in his surrender that the enemy has a new mysterious weapon necessitating surrender.
His commanders tried to stop the surrender.
The last war motto was 100 million for the emperor.
All civilians would have given their lives for the ongoing war.
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