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I'm just gonna lend a bit of factual support to this...
/me busts out his History textbook and quotes:
"In 1945, on Iwo Jima, Japanese defenders had to be dug out of their defensive positions one by one. At the end of that battle, some Japanese injected themselves with poison while others, including women and children, leaped from the cliffs into the sea rather than be captured. Only 216 of the 50,000 defenders were taken alive, at a cost of 6,000 American dead."
Well, tell me, if they defended their outlying posts this fervently, what do you think they would have done when the Allies reached their homeland?
And then this:
"In Manila, General MacArthur began assembling the invasion forces to go ashore on Honshu in December. No one looked forward to the million American deaths expected during the assault on the Japanese home island."
And I wish I had more hard info to give you but we're learning the rest of this unit on Tuesday... we ended just short today
And as for Pearl Harbour, the real issue of this thread - I feel it was totally uncessary as the American Pacific Fleet was in defensive mode and not going to aid the Imperialists in the Pacific.
As to the US supplying material to the Brits - so what? They were allies with the British but would not, no - COULD NOT, get involved with the war as the American public had been promised that they would not be involved in another oversees war by the President. When Japan attacked Pearl, they awoke the "Sleeping Giant" and brought the war with the Americans upon themselves as well as the consequences.
Agrippa said:The atomic bomb saved both Japanese and American lives.
I'm just gonna lend a bit of factual support to this...
/me busts out his History textbook and quotes:
"In 1945, on Iwo Jima, Japanese defenders had to be dug out of their defensive positions one by one. At the end of that battle, some Japanese injected themselves with poison while others, including women and children, leaped from the cliffs into the sea rather than be captured. Only 216 of the 50,000 defenders were taken alive, at a cost of 6,000 American dead."
Well, tell me, if they defended their outlying posts this fervently, what do you think they would have done when the Allies reached their homeland?
And then this:
"In Manila, General MacArthur began assembling the invasion forces to go ashore on Honshu in December. No one looked forward to the million American deaths expected during the assault on the Japanese home island."
And I wish I had more hard info to give you but we're learning the rest of this unit on Tuesday... we ended just short today
And as for Pearl Harbour, the real issue of this thread - I feel it was totally uncessary as the American Pacific Fleet was in defensive mode and not going to aid the Imperialists in the Pacific.
As to the US supplying material to the Brits - so what? They were allies with the British but would not, no - COULD NOT, get involved with the war as the American public had been promised that they would not be involved in another oversees war by the President. When Japan attacked Pearl, they awoke the "Sleeping Giant" and brought the war with the Americans upon themselves as well as the consequences.
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