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They dropped 2 nuclear bombs on, mostly on innocent civilians, seems like pretty good revenge to me.
by trissi1996 2y ago
They dropped 2 nuclear bombs on, mostly on innocent civilians, seems like pretty good revenge to me.
- pfdietz 2y agoAnd even before that, burned > 500 square miles of Japanese urban areas to ash. Granted, by the last weeks of the war, the USAAF was dropping leaflets warning they'd be back with incendiaries in a few days, a masterstroke in psychological warfare.
- Workaccount2 2y agoHot take, but Japanese civilians (all civilians, not just men) were to fight American soldiers if they invaded Japan. We'll never know what would have happened if America invaded, but Japan certainly was not making civilian evacuation plans. So maybe innocent-ish civilians? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kokumin_Giyutai.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kokumin_Giyutai.jpg