We didn’t need to drop the bomb — and even our WW II military icons knew it

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49. Not millions of American's, but millions of Japanese civilians.

The Japanese command knew the war was lost by the end of '44. Millions of old and young Japanese were digging trenches, and drilling with bamboo staffs, all ready to die in defense of their home land.

For twenty years, the Japanese people had been conditioned to prefer death to capture, or surrender. If you don't believe me, look up the ratio of killed Japanese to captured;
120 KIA, to one single captured soldier or civilian on the islands we took.

On August 22 all Allied prisoners of war were to be exterminated, rather then to be given up. The Japanese were the cruelest SOB's of WW II to the populace of the territories they captured, and their treatment of enemy soldiers was beyond the pale.

Anyone who thinks that not dropping at least one of the two A-bombs save countless Japanese as well as American lives are clueless as to the realities of that time period.

My grandfather was on the first combat ship hit by kamakazi attack (U.S. Kalinin Bay), and his brother was a Marine who island hopped across the Pacific Theater. The results of Japanese occupations are part of my family history.