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PO3 Donald Murphy
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Edited 6 y ago
The brutal truth is that the Kamikaze's were burning sailors at a fast rate and the Army needed the Navy both for support and to keep the island campaign a success. So when the Navy threatened to "leave if the Kamikaze problem was not addressed," the Army listened. It was known that the Japanese were hoarding aircraft and creating dummies. The Army had to protect the Navy by removing the Navy's threat. A Col. Le May came up with a novel idea: firebombing the Japanese. The firebombing raids were so brutal that the emperor himself demanded that all aircraft be detailed for defending the home islands. Had the atom bombs been duds, the invasion of Japan would have proceeded and along with it, thirty days of preliminary bombing. This was firebombing. This means anywhere from 75000 - 120000 dead Japanese per day.

So the atom bombs saved lives for all intents and purposes.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/h-bomb-lost-in-spain

The movie I just sent in was kinda based on this, I think....
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