Posted by JerryS on May 29, 2016 at 13:51:42 from (98.80.103.157):
In Reply to: Vets posted by wilson ind on May 29, 2016 at 08:06:47:
Those who condemn the atomic bombing of Japan should read their history. For one thing, after all the atrocities committed by the Japanese there should be no tears of sympathy for them.
Secondly, they should consider the lesson of Iwo Jima: a two mile by five mile island of volcanic ash, with no real strategic value to either side. Yet some 21,000 Japanese, with no hope of reinforcements or replenishment of supplies, held out against superior American Marine forces for over a month in February/March of 1945--just a few months before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They knew they were doomed, but surrender was still not an option. Only 200 or so were captured, and most of those unwillingly. The only survivors were those who hid out in the island's network of tunnels. Over 6,000 Americans died, and 20,000 were wounded.
So, if the Japanese were willing to sacrifice themselves for a useless, tiny island (some of you guys probably farm more land than that), what would their resolve have been in defending the homeland, where their parents, wives and children were in peril?
I have heard it said that the Japanese were going to surrender anyway: the Russians had finished up with Germany and were beginning to cast their greedy eyes eastward, hoping to capture prime land holdings in Asia/China and be part of the dealings with the Japanese mainland (think Berlin/East Berlin and the Iron Curtain.) The Japanese knew that they wanted no part of Russian rule over them. That speculation probably has some merit, but the dropping of Little Boy and Fat Man most certainly accelerated the Japanese decision-making process.
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