#5904637 - 08/06/12 10:50 AM
Today is a day that forever changed history
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http://www.history.com/topics/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced his country's unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of "a new and most cruel bomb.
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#5905016 - 08/06/12 01:50 PM
Re: Today is a day that forever changed history
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My father was to have been among the Marines in the first wave of the invasion so anything that prevented the need to invade worked out well for him.
An invasion of Japan would have cost many more lives than the dropping of these bombs, by any estimate I've ever read.
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#5905343 - 08/06/12 03:48 PM
Re: Today is a day that forever changed history
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I've been watching the Military Channel a lot lately,and they'll show stuff like that a lot.
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#5905438 - 08/06/12 04:21 PM
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I had the priviledge of visiting the Air and Space Museum Hanger near Dulles last week, where the Enola Gay stands proudly. It was hard not to feel some strong emotions standing next to that plane.
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#5905470 - 08/06/12 04:34 PM
Re: Today is a day that forever changed history
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My thoughts go out in particular, to the American victims at Pearl Harbour and the British Victims of the Burma POW camps.
As 'Bomber Harris' said regarding the bombing of Dresen; "if you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind."
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#5906142 - 08/06/12 08:34 PM
Re: Today is a day that forever changed history
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In the long run, it saved many many Japanese lives as well.
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