sci.energy.hydrogen

Jesse wrote:
> The civilans of Iwo
>> Jima killed their own families rather than let them be "ravished" by
>> the Americans. You just don't understand the Japanese.
> That was okinawa...Iwo was basically a barren atoll.
> The Japs there were starving and nearly out of water and everything
> else. They still fought on with near 100% losses.
> 12,000 American casulties to an insane enemy.
> Just a small prelude to a mainland invasion.
> I know our marines loved the bomb.
>
>

I was Army and I know I loved the bomb because we had finished our
training and there certainly was no point in having filled the open
positions in my signal corps batallion if it were not ready to reenter
combat as it had in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Boy, am I glad they
dropped those bombs. I suspect in Japan, in retrospect, they are glad
they were nuked rather than fight to the death with 13 divisions in
place and more on the way and civilians prepared to use bamboo poles as
weapons. What a blood bath that would have been. We would have had to
shoot every civilian we ran across, even children and women. You just
don't understand the fanaticism that gripped the Japanese.
FK