Please don’t think I’m saying the bombing was justified. I too have read many opinions on how much longer they would have fought.
Those clinic films haunt me.
Fifty years ago (apox) I read Hiroshima by John Hersey. The thoughts of survivors. A compelling book that influenced my views on nuking cities. And yet Lemay boasted that his fire bombing campaign killed more Japanese people than the nukes.
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Please don’t think I’m saying the bombing was justified. I too have read many opinions on how much longer they would have fought.
Those clinic films haunt me.
Fifty years ago (apox) I read Hiroshima by John Hersey. The thoughts of survivors. A compelling book that influenced my views on nuking cities. And yet Lemay boasted that his fire bombing campaign killed more Japanese people than the nukes.