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To: Basilides

Thank you - both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected as legitimate miltary targets. End of analysis.


89 posted on 10/29/2005 9:22:37 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3rd Bn. Fifth Marines RVN 1969)
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To: Warthogtjm

Actually...Nagasaki was a secondary target to Fukuoka on August 9th. Due to many SNAFUs and the weather...Bock's Car ( the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki) just barely was able to make one run over Nagasaki, was about to drop the bomb by radar, when the clouds cleared momentarily and ground zero ironically came very close to the Mitsubishi plant that had manufactured the torpedos that were used at Pearl Harbor...

Payback is a bitch...


92 posted on 10/29/2005 9:28:40 PM PDT by Basilides
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To: Warthogtjm
Many more places in Japan were also selected as targets. Some were deselected. The two cities with the most Christians (and historic links to Christianity) were selected.

Did you ever wonder why?

145 posted on 10/30/2005 3:01:35 PM PST by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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