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08-06-2012, 12:21 PM
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This Day in History
August 6th, 1945
The atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima took place. "And behold! I am created, the destroyer of Worlds!"
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis. 
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08-06-2012, 01:57 PM
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"Now we're all sons-of-bitches."
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08-07-2012, 08:14 AM
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I, for one, am ok with the dropping of the atomic bomb. My dad was training to be a carrier pilot for the invasion of Japan. They were told in training that 50% casualties in pilots was to be expected.
My $0.02 Mike
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08-07-2012, 09:24 AM
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08-07-2012, 08:23 PM
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I'll be the third to say I loose no sleep with the use of the bombs. My dad was in an armored field artillery in the Philipines at the time. He had a buddy that went on occupation in Japan, toured the beaches that they were scheduled to assault in third wave with their 'Priests'. It was attrocious the defenses they faced, and explained why they had at least three times basic load of cannister rounds. Lord only knows what the casulties would have been, but there's a high probability that I would never have been born.
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08-07-2012, 09:48 PM
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The casualties for Olympic and Coronet would have been scary.
In some readings about 1995, I found some stuff that indicated that Magic/Ultra had let MacArthur down. Initially, it was thought there were 4 Japanese divisions on Kyushu, then they revised that to 9 divisions by August. American plans called for landing 3 corps, so that's about 9-10 divisions for the attacker. Not good odds, even with all the carriers we had, and air support from Okinawa. (This would have all been from the forces available in the Pacific, troops & planes from Europe would still be in transit.) The scary bit for me was discovering the Japanese really had 14 divisions there, plus 3 tank brigades, and a really good idea where we were going to land. The difference was in troops pulled from Manchuria, so they were somewhat fresh and tested.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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08-07-2012, 08:40 AM
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If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives. Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect" Mors ante pudorem
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