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Hiroshima, 64 Years Later
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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 579416" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>As horrific as the two a-bombs were, they were necessary to speed up the end of the war. We fire-bombed Dresden in Germany and killed similar numbers of civilians before the attacks on Japan. The estimates for the invasion of Japan were at over a million lives</p><p></p><p>My father was in the 10th Mt.Division and fought in Italy. As soon as Germany surrendered, the US started building up for the Invasion of Japan. He was reassigned to a malaria survey unit and shipped off to the Pacific for it. He was in one of the first American units to actually touch ground on the Japanese homeland before the Surrender Document was signed on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. They liberated American POWs, including General Wainwright, who had to surrender the Philippines after General Douglas McArther was ordered to leave. He also surveyed the blast damage on the ground in Hiroshima. I remember looking at a few of black and white photos he took there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 579416, member: 1674"] As horrific as the two a-bombs were, they were necessary to speed up the end of the war. We fire-bombed Dresden in Germany and killed similar numbers of civilians before the attacks on Japan. The estimates for the invasion of Japan were at over a million lives My father was in the 10th Mt.Division and fought in Italy. As soon as Germany surrendered, the US started building up for the Invasion of Japan. He was reassigned to a malaria survey unit and shipped off to the Pacific for it. He was in one of the first American units to actually touch ground on the Japanese homeland before the Surrender Document was signed on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. They liberated American POWs, including General Wainwright, who had to surrender the Philippines after General Douglas McArther was ordered to leave. He also surveyed the blast damage on the ground in Hiroshima. I remember looking at a few of black and white photos he took there. [/QUOTE]
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