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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
*sigh*... Im not going to repeat myself again.
Please refer yourself to the previous link I gave earlier in the thread if you want to get a better insight into my position.
Okinawa and Iwo Jima were defended vigourously because the US invaded them.
Japan was looking for a way out. Your American revisionist history is not completely wrong... but it omits a lot of facts about the Japanese and creates a false narrative.
The only other point I will address is that the firebombings didnt leave radiation and fallout which lasted decades later, killing hundreds and thousands of people AFTER the war ended.
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Okinawa was needed for the Americans to be able to fly planes out to bomb japanese cities.
The fact that the Americans still use it as a base Now ostensibly to protect Japan?
haven't read about iwo jima so need to learn more about that.
from what I have read, the war had not ended before the A bombs were dropped.
Surely there was still heavy fighting on the ground. plus terrible conditions for POW's.