http://youtu.be/MJ_Ic4KFnaA hell in the pacific part 1 of 5 Warning graphic
http://youtu.be/MJ_Ic4KFnaA hell in the pacific part 1 of 5 Warning graphic
http://youtu.be/l4q4NZH-eVM
With the marines at tarawa, combat footage, Warning raw & graphic
IMO, if you allied your self with the nazi then you pretty much deserve (as a nation) whatever you get, a-bombs included. No regrets. The fuckin italians were lucky.
Dang some lively discussion coming from this thread!
tragic yes, but the thousands that died in hiroshima and nagasaki is a small number compared to the millions that would have been liquidated if we had to invade mainland Japan. there simply would not be any japan anymore. there policy was to fight to the death and all there civilians and soldiers were told to fight to the last and the Marines, Army, Airborne, and all the battle hardened troops from europe would have wiped the japanease completely out. The marines went from island to island in the pacific, and if there was a garrison of 20,000 japanease troops on a island, then they had to kill all 20,000 of them before the island was declared secure. that's why the U.S, Marines were the toughest soldiers of ww2 and that's also why invading mainland japan would have been a blood bath and would have ment the end of native japanease people as we know it.
We are some bad mother fuckers :) but I was stationed in Okinawa. The Okinawans have not forgt what happened there an have been trying to push the U.S. out for decades. That's why they are sending all the Marines to Guam now. Everyone including MacAruthur knew if we invaded mainland Japanit would have been a blood bath for everyone so he recommended nuclear strike to Washington. He was a believer in absolute victory and the Japanes were not afraid to fight to the last man. The bombs were actually intended for Germany but by that point Germany had already surrendered. MacArthur wanted to nuke China and Korea too during the Korean War and that proposal the President at the time (can't remember who) fired him and threatend to throw him in prison. A lot of people think Iwo Jima was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific, when in reality Tarawa was. I am a Marine, so I research a lot WWII history.