This Day in History

[Adm.Lee]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

But if one bothers to ask the GIs who were destined to disembark on X-Day..."When the bombs were dropped, I knew that the war would end and I would live."

Interestingly, I've seen one different opinion. George MacDonald Fraser, a British infantryman in Burma, related in his memoir Quartered safe out here. He thought that if he had posed the option to his squadmates, "Another campaign for us, or hundreds of thousands of enemy civilians dead?" they would have grumbled and complained, but made the effort. Now, that's 50 years later, and his opinion projected onto others, but there it is.