From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:46:26 -0500, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> > Yes, that was why I posted the Hirshima picture.   The "laws and
>> > customs or war" are peacetime constructs which have no
influence on
>> > wartime conduct.
>
>> And again, you'd have prefered the million or more American and Japanese
>> casualities a full blown invasion would have cost.
>
> Again you're believing your own story.  The Japanese effort was very
> close
> to collapse - Japan has almost no raw materials of its own and the
> blockade
> was very effective.  Ammunition shipments to the occupied islands had
> already ceased.
>
> http://www.doug-long.com/hiroshim.htm
>
>

Our experience of the desperation of Japanese defense on outlying islands
was more than instructive.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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