The cities we bombed were also major industrial sites for the Japanese military.
Somehow, that part of the story is left out of the picture and the anti-Americans paint the picture of America attacking random towns where people were living and working happily.
They were building the machines that were killing Americans and our allies.
“The cities we bombed were also major industrial sites for the Japanese military.
Somehow, that part of the story is left out of the picture and the anti-Americans paint the picture of America attacking random towns where people were living and working happily.
They were building the machines that were killing Americans and our allies.”
Hiroshima was an army and naval garrison, as well as an industrial base. The Nagasaki bomb exploded directly over the sprawling Mitsubishi armament works. One of the Nagasaki photographs that never gets displayed by the peaceniks is that of a Long Lance torpedo, laying in its cradle, surrounded by debris and bathed in sunshine inside the roofless Mitsubishi factory.
And the casualty rates, as fearsome as they were, paled in comparison to the casualties inflicted by more conventional incindiary bombing already done. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets for the A-bomb because they were of military importance and were as yet relatively untouched by that bombing campaign, so they would yield more valid bomb damage assessments as well.
It was the 'shock and awe' of the damage being done by a single bomb on each city which was the game changer.