Re: Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, RIP
- From: " JimH" <ask me@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:42:45 -0400
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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:59:13 -0700, Chuck Gould
<chuckgould.chuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We had reduced Japanese naval power to the point where an effective
blockade of the island nation would probably have inspired its
surrender within a matter of weeks...likely without an invasio
The GIs who took Okinawa would probably dissagree with this
assessment. There were still Japanese soldiers holding out on islands
years after the war. I dsoubt there was any kind of attrition war that
would have defeated them and we might still have an Iraqi style
insurrection around the world.
Remember the Japanese invented the suicide bomber.
You are correct. I don't know if you watched the Ken Burns PBS documentary
called the War but they detailed accounts following dropping the 2 a-bombs
of the Japanese peoples (including women and children) willingness to fight
and hold on to the bitter end, even if it meant death. Surrender to the
enemy was not an option to them. They showed pictures of Japanese women
jumping off cliffs to the rocks below committing suicide as American troops
landed on the island.
A blockade would not only have extended the War but resulted in most
Japanese starving to death rather than surrender.
Eisboch was very accurate in his assessment of why we had to drop the bombs.
.
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