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Japan may have been moving towards surrender but it was not

Posted on: August 6, 2025 at 17:32:53 CT

DHighlander NWMSU

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going to happen for at least months. You can argue about how many Japaneese lives would have been saved by not dropping the bomb but it, without a doubt, saved thousands of American lives by sending the war almost immediately.

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80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing - El-ahrairah BAMA - 8/6 16:44:04

Read up on Operation Downfall - Calca STL - 8/6 17:55:42

That is likely revisionist history. - Spanky KU - 8/6 17:19:09

I’ll listen to Eisenhower, Nimitz, etc over you - El-ahrairah BAMA - 8/6 17:50:33

Far less civilian lives were lost in Japan due to - Spanky KU - 8/6 17:54:27

Japan may have been moving towards surrender but it was not - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/6 17:32:53

They wanted a conditional surrender - Calca STL - 8/6 18:25:43

The only condition was keeping their emporer - El-ahrairah BAMA - 8/6 20:09:51

No, they had other conditions. No army of occupation. - Tigrrrr! MU

- 8/6 20:18:29

They also wanted to decommission their army themselves and - Tigrrrr! MU

- 8/6 19:34:49

400,000 lives saved and 600,000 wounded - Tigrrrr! MU

- 8/6 17:56:13

Well they were ready to surrender - El-ahrairah BAMA - 8/6 17:58:51

Not hardly. Guy told the story of an elderly woman on - Tigrrrr! MU

- 8/6 18:11:29

They weren't(nm) - Calca STL - 8/6 17:59:25

We only had 2 bombs - El-ahrairah BAMA - 8/6 17:53:40

3rd one was almost ready and would have hit Kokura - Calca STL - 8/6 18:01:58

The Japs had approached the Russians about peace, BS.nm - tigertix MU - 8/6 17:32:16

The Air Force should do a flyover in honor of the occasion(nm) - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/6 16:53:10

and drop leaflets like they did in '45............nm - tigertix MU - 8/6 17:35:20

Just watched a show on PBS last night on the end of the war - Tigrrrr! MU

- 8/6 16:56:11

80th anniversary gift.... - Tigrrrr! MU

- 8/6 16:51:06