Hiroshima marks 70 years since atomic bomb

BBC World News ^ | Aug 5 , 2015 | BBC

[LeoWindhorse]

Residents in the Japanese city of Hiroshima are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft.

[donaldo]

These Rapatronic camera images are always fascinating to me, There’s something other worldly and primordial about them:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rapatronic+nuclear+photographs&biw=1280&bih=623&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI7-T41rSTxwIVhowNCh20LwHK

[MrEdd]

Yup.

I met women who had been used as sexual slaves by the Japanese in Korea and also in the Philippines (where it was less common) back in the early eighties. They did the same in parts of China.

America has focused too much on the Holocaust to the point it seems to give Japan a pass on their actions in the Second World War.

[Twinkie]

Remember Pearl Harbor !

“I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant.” (The words of one of the Japanese officers onboard one of the ships that participated in taking the Jap planes & launching them to attack Pearl Harbor. He was correct in the foreboding he had.)

[ScottinVA]

Back in ‘41, after Pearl Harbor, the US public was willing to get behind a war effort to bring about total victory. Modern-day America would lose interest after a couple weeks. Meanwhile, the dems would be “reaching out” to Tojo to “come to the negotiating table,” with an offer to hand over half the Hawaiian islands as a “good-faith” gesture.

[hosepipe]

Approx 250,000 dead....worth it!!

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Completely.. compared to several million dead if invaded..
DO THE MATH...

** several meaning many many millions..

[Democratic-Republican]

KAMIKAZE ATTACKS USS MISSOURI (Source)

Kamikaze Attack - November 25th, 1944 (Source)

Marines fight off Japanese ‘Banzai’ charge on Guam (Source)

(Source)

From that last source ...

"Banzai rush

On July 7, the battle to secure the Japanese-occupied island of Saipan crested in one of the largest banzai charges of the Pacific War. That charge — which lasted more than 15 hours — brought the total combined Japanese and American casualties for the bloody campaign to more than 30,000.

"Suddenly there is what sounded like a thousand people screaming all at once, as a hoard of 'mad men' broke out of the darkness before us. Screams of 'Banzai' fill the air, Japanese officers leading the 'devils from hell,' their swords drawn and swishing in circles over their heads. Jap soldiers were following their leaders, firing their weapons at us and screaming 'Banzai' as they charged toward us.

Our weapons opened up, our mortars and machine guns fired continually. No longer did they fire in bursts of three or five. Belt after belt of ammunition went through that gun, the gunner swinging the barrel left and right. Even though Jap bodies built up in front of us, they still charged us, running over their comrades' fallen bodies. The mortar tubes became so hot from the rapid fire, as did the machine gun barrels, that they could no longer be used." - First Lieutenant John C. Chapin

July 8th quickly became the beginning of the end. The Japanese had spent the last of their unit manpower in the banzai charge; now it was time for the final American "mop-up." LVTs rescued men of the 105th Infantry who had waded out from the shore to the reef to escape the Japanese. Holland Smith then moved most of the 27th Infantry into reserve, and put the Second Marines back on the line of attack, with the 105th Infantry attached. Together with the Fourth Marines, they swept north toward the end of the island.

By the time the Americans reached the northern end of Saipan on July 9, thousands of the island's men, women, and children were at the top of the cliffs overlooking the shark-infested waters. And because of pre-invasion propaganda that had been distributed by the Japanese to citizens of the island, many natives were horrified of being tortured and maimed if captured by the Americans.

Despite loud speaker efforts of Americans attempting to persuade the enemy away from the cliffs, reason would not come to be. Hundreds of natives and soldiers jumped from the cliffs of northern Saipan (some were thrown by Japanese soldiers), while others committed suicide by holding onto grenades in caves. All but 1,000 of the Japanese military soldiers were dead, along with 22,000 civilians."

There was a lot of nasty revisionist propaganda in American newspapers beginning in the fifties stating the A-Bombings were cruel and un-necessary. I remember reading these stoopid letters-to-the-editor from domestic traitors ignoring that at least one million U.S. troops were being prepared for invasion and hundreds of thousands would be lost. The Japanese losses would easily be in the millions. And that's before considering the trouble that would be caused by Stalin with further Communist expansion.

[LeoWindhorse]

this is because we have let in far too many people who are NOT loyal Americans and have no vested interest in our national history or culture .

There needs to be a SPECIAL OATH ( with severe punishments for breaking it ) that is required for anyone seeking to become ‘ an American ‘ . This oath would establish ‘loyalty’
Only loyal AMERICANS should be able to vote or affect our country and its operations

[LeoWindhorse]

my uncle was a crew member about USS Missouri when this photo was taken .

[Democratic-Republican]

"my uncle was a crew member about USS Missouri when this photo was taken."

Incredible. If he is still with us please let the old sailor know we salute him.

[LeoWindhorse]

long gone

the incredible thing was that he was a crewman aboard USS Arizona on 12/7/41 , had shore leave on Sat. night. Some wahine saved his life .

[patriot08]

What if Truman had been president when the muzzies murdered. 3000 Americass on 9/11?

[microgood]

Good information. And thanks for the link.

[Former Fetus]

Citizenship oath: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."

I'm afraid oaths don't mean anything to a lot of people!

[Clintonfatigued]

Check out this pic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3321147/posts?page=3#3

70 years ago, Hiroshima was a ruin and Detroit was a thriving city. Now, Hiroshima is a thriving city and Detroit is a ruin. But no one dropped a bomb on Detroit.

Something to think about.

[Impy]

Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GOPsterinMA]

POST OF THE DAY, CF!!! POWERFUL!!!

[GOPsterinMA]

Democrats destroyed both cities.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“70 years ago, Hiroshima was a ruin and Detroit was a thriving city. Now, Hiroshima is a thriving city and Detroit is a ruin. But no one dropped a bomb on Detroit.

Something to think about.”

Post of the YEAR!