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Shooter
First off, understand that I am not meaning to discount the lives lost from the 9/11 attacks nor to apply a direct comparison of the following. What I do want you to get from this is to see what we did to Japan during WWII in a different perspective.
After experiencing the 9/11 attacks and how it has affected each and every one of us personally, imagine what it was like for the Japanese people during the last stretch of WWII when we, under the direction of President Truman, mass murdered hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians to force the Empire of Japan to surrender their efforts in the war.
After doing much reading, I have come to the conclusion that other than the purpose behind the bombings, I really don't see much difference in what we did to Japan than what Hitler did during the raids on London. From most of the literature I can find, the bombings from Germany are mostly described as terror tactics, while the bombings from the US to Japan are not.
I guess the winners always write the history.
Prior to our dropping the two Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US had a widespread firebombing campaign in which we attacked 67 Japanese cities killing hundreds of thousands of civilians while also hitting strategic industrial areas to hinder Japans efforts to continue their own campaign. Since the firebombings did not stop the Empire in their efforts, the two nuclear bombs were then dropped on the two civilian cities...
With your feelings against those who attacked us on 9/11, how could the Japanese civilian population ever forgive us for what we did to them? I don't think I personally could.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively. After six months of intense fire-bombing of 67 other Japanese cities, followed by an ultimatum which was ignored by the Shōwa regime, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday,[1] August 6, 1945, [2] followed on August 9 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.[3]
The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945,[4] with roughly half of those deaths occurring on the days of the bombings. Amongst these, 15–20% died from injuries or the combined effects of flash burns, trauma, and radiation burns, compounded by illness, malnutrition and radiation sickness.[5] Since then, more have died from leukemia (231 observed) and solid cancers (334 observed) attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs.[6] In both cities, most of the dead were civilians.
Conventional bombing damage to 67 Japanese cities in WWII
City & % area destroyed
Yokohama 58
Tokyo 51
Toyama 99
Nagoya 40
Osaka 35.1
Nishinomiya 11.9
Shimonoseki 37.6
Kure 41.9
Kobe 55.7
Omuta 35.8
Wakayama 50
Kawasaki 36.2
Okayama 68.9
Yahata 21.2
Kagoshima 63.4
Amagasaki 18.9
Sasebo 41.4
Moji 23.3
Miyakonojō 26.5
Nobeoka 25.2
Miyazaki 26.1
Ube 20.7
Saga 44.2
Imabari 63.9
Matsuyama 64
Fukui 86
Tokushima 85.2
Sakai 48.2
Hachioji 65
Kumamoto 31.2
Isesaki 56.7
Takamatsu 67.5
Akashi 50.2
Fukuyama 80.9
Aomori 30
Okazaki 32.2
Ōita 28.2
Hiratsuka 48.4
Tokuyama 48.3
Yokkaichi 33.6
Ujiyamada 41.3
Ōgaki 39.5
Gifu 63.6
Shizuoka 66.1
Himeji 49.4
Fukuoka 24.1
Kōchi 55.2
Shimizu 42
Omura 33.1
Chiba 41
Ichinomiya 56.3
Nara 69.3
Tsu 69.3
Kuwana 75
Toyohashi 61.9
Numazu 42.3
Choshi 44.2
Kofu 78.6
Utsunomiya 43.7
Mito 68.9
Sendai 21.9
Tsuruga 65.1
Nagaoka 64.9
Hitachi 72
Kumagaya 55.1
Hamamatsu 60.3
Maebashi 64.2
After experiencing the 9/11 attacks and how it has affected each and every one of us personally, imagine what it was like for the Japanese people during the last stretch of WWII when we, under the direction of President Truman, mass murdered hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians to force the Empire of Japan to surrender their efforts in the war.
After doing much reading, I have come to the conclusion that other than the purpose behind the bombings, I really don't see much difference in what we did to Japan than what Hitler did during the raids on London. From most of the literature I can find, the bombings from Germany are mostly described as terror tactics, while the bombings from the US to Japan are not.
I guess the winners always write the history.Prior to our dropping the two Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US had a widespread firebombing campaign in which we attacked 67 Japanese cities killing hundreds of thousands of civilians while also hitting strategic industrial areas to hinder Japans efforts to continue their own campaign. Since the firebombings did not stop the Empire in their efforts, the two nuclear bombs were then dropped on the two civilian cities...
With your feelings against those who attacked us on 9/11, how could the Japanese civilian population ever forgive us for what we did to them? I don't think I personally could.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively. After six months of intense fire-bombing of 67 other Japanese cities, followed by an ultimatum which was ignored by the Shōwa regime, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday,[1] August 6, 1945, [2] followed on August 9 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.[3]
The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945,[4] with roughly half of those deaths occurring on the days of the bombings. Amongst these, 15–20% died from injuries or the combined effects of flash burns, trauma, and radiation burns, compounded by illness, malnutrition and radiation sickness.[5] Since then, more have died from leukemia (231 observed) and solid cancers (334 observed) attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs.[6] In both cities, most of the dead were civilians.
Conventional bombing damage to 67 Japanese cities in WWII
City & % area destroyed
Yokohama 58
Tokyo 51
Toyama 99
Nagoya 40
Osaka 35.1
Nishinomiya 11.9
Shimonoseki 37.6
Kure 41.9
Kobe 55.7
Omuta 35.8
Wakayama 50
Kawasaki 36.2
Okayama 68.9
Yahata 21.2
Kagoshima 63.4
Amagasaki 18.9
Sasebo 41.4
Moji 23.3
Miyakonojō 26.5
Nobeoka 25.2
Miyazaki 26.1
Ube 20.7
Saga 44.2
Imabari 63.9
Matsuyama 64
Fukui 86
Tokushima 85.2
Sakai 48.2
Hachioji 65
Kumamoto 31.2
Isesaki 56.7
Takamatsu 67.5
Akashi 50.2
Fukuyama 80.9
Aomori 30
Okazaki 32.2
Ōita 28.2
Hiratsuka 48.4
Tokuyama 48.3
Yokkaichi 33.6
Ujiyamada 41.3
Ōgaki 39.5
Gifu 63.6
Shizuoka 66.1
Himeji 49.4
Fukuoka 24.1
Kōchi 55.2
Shimizu 42
Omura 33.1
Chiba 41
Ichinomiya 56.3
Nara 69.3
Tsu 69.3
Kuwana 75
Toyohashi 61.9
Numazu 42.3
Choshi 44.2
Kofu 78.6
Utsunomiya 43.7
Mito 68.9
Sendai 21.9
Tsuruga 65.1
Nagaoka 64.9
Hitachi 72
Kumagaya 55.1
Hamamatsu 60.3
Maebashi 64.2
