Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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I was watching the History channel on the plans for the invasion of Japan in WW2; Schwarzkoppf (sp?) said that the casualty estimates for US soldiers in the invasion was around 500K US dead (if you look at Okinawa, we had huge casualties taking that tiny island, and killed 200K Japanese, because their culture (which is fascinating) pushed them to fight to the last). Also, the US POWs in Japan were dying at a rate of 1K/day, and Japan made it clear that they would all be executed if an invasion occurred. Anyway, they had some WW2 vets on who said the day they heard the A-Bomb was dropped, just about every US soldier in the camp started weeping, because they all expected they would die in the assault on Japan, and knew their lives had been saved. One soldier interviewed said, "I love the A-bomb, because it saved my life." Strange.