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To: BroJoeK

“The war the allies waged on Axis powers was 100% humanitarian?”

Ha, ha... The civilian death toll in Japan from Allied bombing was between 330,000 and 900,000 with an additional 112,000 killed from the atomic bombs.

Humanitarian if you are into population control.


40 posted on 05/30/2023 10:04:10 AM PDT by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $3.00 a gallon.)
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To: BushCountry

A lot more Japanese would have died if we were forced to invade.


41 posted on 05/30/2023 10:05:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BushCountry
Up to ten million Japanese would have been killed if we invaded.

The allies would have seen another 1.7 to 4 million killed.

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson himself stated "We shall in my opinion have to go through an even more bitter finish fight than in Germany. We shall incur the losses incident to such a war and we shall leave the Japanese islands even more thoroughly destroyed than was the case with Germany."

44 posted on 05/30/2023 9:29:09 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: BushCountry; dfwgator; 2CAVTrooper
BushCountry: "Ha, ha... The civilian death toll in Japan from Allied bombing was between 330,000 and 900,000 with an additional 112,000 killed from the atomic bombs.
Humanitarian if you are into population control."

If we are only going to count up the death toll, then the Japanese WON WWII by a score of 10 to one.
Japan's total war-deaths were around 3 million.
Total war deaths in countries defending themselves against Japanese aggressions were around 30 million.

True justice would have required Japan to suffer more deaths and destruction than they inflicted on their Asian neighbors, but nobody I know of has ever suggested that should have been our policy of goal.

Bombing Japan was the most humanitarian way possible to end the war, since the alternative was invading Japan, which was estimated to have cost the lives of one million Americans (including my dad!), plus tens of millions of suicidal Japanese. Those two A-bombs in 1945 saved the lives of 100 Japanese for every Japanese life they took.
They were the ultimate in humanitarian warfare available to Americans at that time.

46 posted on 05/31/2023 5:44:03 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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