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dutch777

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6. Good point. Trumans reason to approve the atomic bombings of Japan. Lemay was going to fire bomb the whole

Reply to SYFROYH (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 09:17 PM

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country by the end of 1945 by shifting all the idle bombers in Europe to Okinawa and level all the major urban centers in Japan. His only concern was whether he could get enough napalm bombs to meet the need. The atom bombs were terrible, but firebombing all major cities full of civilians in wood houses would have been horrific.

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