Same here. My Father was in the Navy serving on a Navy Tug when we were Island hopping towards Japan.
Their Job was to tow stranded Landing Craft off the Beaches during Amphibious Island Invasions while under fire.
He told me it was petty hairy but the closest call was when his CO got a little cocky and ordered them in without the Blessing of the Fleet Commander.
One of our Destroyer’s threatened to blow them out of water if they didn’t get out of the way of the incoming Landing Craft.
Closest call he had in the War as far as I know, but he did survive the Killer Typhoon that killed a lot of our Sailors.
Did I mention that Obama is a POS?
The simple fact is, had Japan not started the War, there would have been no Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tokyo wouldn’t have been Firebombed by us either.
Also the atom bombs of that era were quite weak compared to what we know today. Kilotons, not megatons. I saw a chart that compared the Hiroshima blasted area to LA International Airport. The airport is larger. It’s because so many people were living densely packed there, that the bomb killed as many as it did. AND, to top it off, that area had been leafleted days back with warnings about bombs, which were targeted to known military production sites.
“No Pearl Harbor, no Hiroshima”.