WW2 didn't end in May 1945. The was not until August 15th 1945 that Japan surrendered. 75 years ago today. God bless all those that made the victory happen.
The dropping of the two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
Maybe but then Japan would know all about war crimes as well you know.The dropping of the two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
Maybe but then Japan would know all about war crimes as well you know.
I had an uncle who was an escaped POW in Burma.Those bombs probably saved his life but don't change my opinion.
USA the only country to have used nuclear weapons yet lectures the world about freedom and democracy. Sick beyond belief.The dropping of the two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
I remember today two men I worked with on the post many years ago. Arthur Marchant and Charlie Bracey were both captured at the fall of Singapore and were treated appallingly until their liberation. Arthur lost his sense of smell due to a guards rifle butt in the face, Charlie suffered n8ghtmares until the day he died.
Arthur never held any malice or if he did kept it to himself, Charlie became extremely agitated and anything that resembled the Japanese culture ( I wore a tee-shirt that had the rising sun and japanese writing on it once at work which really bothered him)
They were good blokes who I raise a glass to today.
One of my first jobs was with Lentern Aircraft, along with many other shrimpers. There was an old boy called Tom who had also been captured at the fall of Singapore. He also had a pathological hated of all things Japanese, despite being a really nice guy. I loved hearing his first hand stories and he spared no details, including beheadings by sword.
I fully understood why he felt the way he did. He also had a similar story as the film Unbroken. From building a railway to transported of a hell ship to mainland Japan to work for their war effort. Their guards had made them dig their own 3 man graves and had great pleasure in telling them they would be forced in the hole and a grenade dropped in to kill them when the Allies landed.
Despite surviving the horrors and starvation for 4 years he gave up at that point.....he knew there was no chance.....Two days later Hiroshima.
The decision to use the bomb saved at least 500,000 allied lives and millions of Japanese.....Not only that some of us wouldn't be around. If my grandfather had been sent to Japan after Italy, rather than home with his family......I doubt me, my sister and all my cousins would exist.
It’s clear the US should not have bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Dropping the A-bombs was unnecessary, repugnant and very likely a war crime.qz.com
It also cost over 200,000 Japananese civilians their lives and maimed many more.