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To: COEXERJ145

These people are just trying to gain some mileage toward their personal political agendas. The Japanese really know deep down inside their hearts of hearts that had the U.S. not dropped the two bombs, the U.S. consequently would have had to invade. As a result, the Japanese would have suffered millions of casualities. Also, the Soviets would have declared war on the Japanese and would have participated in the invasion which would have led to a partition of Japan after the war between the Soviets and the U.S. So, the best outcome that the Japanese could have hoped for was the one that came about as a result of Truman having the courage to drop Little Bob and Fat Man.


29 posted on 10/29/2005 8:33:06 PM PDT by snoringbear
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To: snoringbear

You've got it right snoringbear.


30 posted on 10/29/2005 8:36:04 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)
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To: snoringbear

Yep


39 posted on 10/29/2005 8:42:17 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (http://www.navyfield.com)
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To: snoringbear

Little Bob

Make that "Little Boy".


91 posted on 10/29/2005 9:27:02 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (Get lean and mean, write, fax, call, or email your representatives and pitch a pig.)
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To: snoringbear; Warthogtjm

Truman was told that 100,000 mainland Asians were dying at the hands of the Japanese occupiers each month, and he factored that into his decision. A historian recently estimated that the actual death rate was more like 250,000 to 400,000. We planned to invade on 1 November 1945. In other words, the fewer than 200,000 deaths between Hiroshima and Nagasaki prevented somewhere between 300,000 and 1.2 million deaths on the mainland before we even begin counting invasion casualties.


162 posted on 10/30/2005 6:22:34 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("Fortunately, my voluminous 'fro saved me from a concussion.")
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