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coda

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Mon Sep-15-03 05:08 AM
Response to Reply #71

82. Nagasaki was alternate target, Kokura being the primary one.

I also had been taught that dropping the bomb saved many Japanese and American lives in the long run.

But my school books didn't carry any of the comments by many in the military who believed it wasn't neccessary.

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