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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
How many japanese citizens died in hiroshima?
How many Japanese citizens died during the invasion of Okinawa?
How many purple hearts had the US ordered to be used during the invasion of the main islands?
When was the last time the US purchased purple hearts?
but like i dig man, it was bogue to do it!
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I hate to complicate this, but I believe that the bombing of Dresden was a war crime. It was pay back for the bombing of London which is not a justifiable reason for bombing a city. And did not really help win the war (or help speed up its end). Same as the fire bombing of Tokyo; it served no strategic purpose. I believe, like Hutchins, that all the "strategi bombing" would have been more effedtive if it had been focused on military targets. Why the hell were there any operating airports left in Germany after the war? Why were there any military bases left? Those should all have been incinerated before we started thinking about civilian targets (if ever).
In hindsight the bombing of Hiroshima was not a war crime because as it turned out we had to hit two cities (Nagasaki) to get the Japanese to surrender. We should have started out with military targets and then moved our way up, but now we all know that the Japanese needed two bombs dropped in two major metropolitan centers before the emperor would force a surrender on the Japanese military.
