From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:52:02 -0500, John Cuccia 
> 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.
> --
> Gary Wiltshire

I'm not arguing against the Hiroshima bombing but I do doubt that we would
have had to go into Operation 'Downfall' and invade even had we not used
the atomic bomb.  We did own the air over Japan with the B29s  and the
firebombing raids had done far, far more damage to the morale of the
population ( i.e. 20 square miles of downtown Tokyo a sea of napalm flame -
either burn or be asphyxiated).

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