Kamikaze Attacks At Okinawa [13+]

During that fateful day, a typhoon was blowing strong
which annilihated over half their fleet, they retreated and never came back. The Gods had send the Divine Winds: Kamikaze

Actually they did come back the next year or so and the same thing happened.

were hit by a typhoon twice

asia monguls vs japan samurai
i still find it unreasonably dumb to have attaked america first especially when we had a binding treaty
but at the same time it got us to join the war and kick ass but we lost alot of men sadly.
the a bomb wouldve been launched at a better place because thousands of inocent japanese died.

The japanese were cut off from American oil and steel imports due to sanctions. To continue with expanding their empire, they decided to risk it all and attack to destroy the Pacific Fleet. With the Americans powerless in the Pacific, they would be free to take over the oil supplies and negotiate a treaty. They based this on the American form of government, which was to compromise {how unlike today.} The term "uncoditional surrender" must have come as a complete shock.

interesting but still it should have been thought out a little more on the japanese but at the same time alot of countries believed america was weak... so i dunno but they should have known that a country wouldnt just take thousands of casualties just to make a treaty the next day.

how japanese can be fu**ed by us battleships

a real slaughter

Seriously

However, my great uncle Nisson, was one of the 8 scientists that constructed the first Atom bombs for the US. We already had most of the technology and schools of thought, but had not put the projects into practice until several engineers from Europe came over. It was inevitable that our Atomic project would have come to be even without help. Don't say we relied on the European's, that is completely untrue, and a common media spin. If anything they helped speed things up, and yes at the time they were a little further ahead in their research.

Another reason why the United States also dropped the atomic bomb was because it would have likely been the last time that they could test on live subjects on a mass scale - twice! They could have dropped one - out to sea and probably could have convinced Nippon to cease hostilities.

I do believe that the US tested out a bomb before dropping it on Hiroshima, though I don't recall exactly. It's an interseting notin to think that Japanese knowledge of a test of an atomic weapon would have produced a surrender. Too bad hind sight is 2020.

manhattan project scientists scraped together just enough plutonium for the 2 bombs, little boy and fat man. the us was desperate to end the war, there is no way they would have wasted any pluto on a test.

America wasnt worried about stalin and the ruskies during WW2. The russians were flat broke, and had no army. H Truman considered stalin a "pompous airbag", to quote him late in life. He was actually more worried about euro reconstruction than anything...Oh and also the bombs were almost built, after they dropped Fat Man, scientists like seaborg and everyone at los alamos was working day and night on creating more plutonium for bombs, truman told them that they needed four more bombs, he thought, to end the war.

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The ships where there to supply that land forces.

The fish need to eat to.

Ahh, I love the smell of fallout in the morning.

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for thousands of us soldier died, thousands of japanese civilian have to pay.. is it? nice thinking...

My point was that this type of warfre had such a massive impact on the course of the war. It was something that nobody had been prepared for.

No civilian should be targetted, whatever the side. The japs targetted hospital ships and look into the way they treated the families they captured at the fall of Singapore. Neither side deserves any credit for targetting civilians.

they kill a couple of thousand soldiers, so we destroy two cities full of civilians. great. now thats gonna make this planet a better place.

the usa lost 295.000 men in a war declared on the usa by japan and germany. i am glad that a democracy developed atomic weapons first. the main reason hiroshima and nagasaki were bombed was to show stalin not to screw with western europe. dresden and berlin were the original targets ,but the bomb wasnt ready yet. dresden had the hell bombed out of it by the usaaf and the raf just before the russians got there,to show stalin what the allies can do, stalin was as bad or worse then hitler,luckily neither had atomic weapons first

Stalin was not worse than Hitler, no two ways about it. Was Stalin a cold-blooded killer on a massive scale? Yes. Was Hitler? Yes. The difference between them was their reasons. Stalin forced his country into hyper -industrialization to prevent exactly what almost happened {the conquering of Russia by another European power.} Stalin did his job, even if he was a freaking paranoid/ delusional pshyco. Hitler, on the other hand, killed for his ideals of the "Aryan race". The far greater evil lays in the one who kills for their chosen group, clear as day.

...were the two largest individual terrorist acts ever performed in the 20th century, and they were carried out by the 'heroes' of the war. Harry Truman was even lied to so that he would authorize the drops; he thought that the targets were fully military and that there would be extremely minimal civilian casualties.

Note this: You pointed out that the USA lost 295,000 men. They did, that is true, but they were also all soldiers. The two atomic bombs killed more than 170,000 CIVILIANS immediately, and Japan is still feeling the effects from the two bombs even today.

jm not sayingi i agree with it,just what and why it happened. this what i posted in another forum last year::

japan was not the intended target of the atomic bombs, berlin and probably dresden(another axis city untouched by bombing) were.
the atomic bomb not being available,dresden was bombed by 1300 english and american bombers before the russians arrived. take note of the last sentence of this memo
(1) Internal Royal Air Force memo (January, 1945)

Dresden, the seventh largest city in Germany and not much smaller than Manchester, is also far the largest unbombed built-up the enemy has got. In the midst of winter with refugees pouring westwards and troops to be rested, roofs are at a premium. The intentions of the attack are to hit the enemy where he will feel it most, behind an already partially collapsed front, to prevent the use of the city in the way of further advance, and incidentally to show the Russians when they arrive what Bomber Command can do.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdresden.htm

in january 1945, the russian army consisted of 10.500.000 men including 6.000.000 combatants,500 divisions supported by 29.500 tanks,109.000 heavy guns and 15.000 aircraft(i dont know the v.e. day figures, but probably more) under the control of stalin,another cruel dictator.
he was being informed about the manhatten project by his spies,and maybe this prompted him to respect the allied agreement on the zones of occupation in germany,and see what became of the manhatten project . the first bomb test "trinity" left him unimpressed,it could have just been a big pile of tnt set off in the desert.

,a bomb dropped in tokyo bay or in the sea around japan, could look like a ammunition ship exploding http://www.ussbush.com/slotow.htm ,
(anyone have rhe film of it ?) so the us decided to bomb hiroshima and nagasaki to show the russians that it was small enough to be delivered by an aircraft and that they had more then 1. this made stalin realize war with usa and britian would be suicide for the ussr

with no atomic weapons , i believe stalin would have overun western europe with his superior armour,massive air force and 500 divisions of combat experienced troops, costing the lives of millions more and the war would go on and on for years.
before ww2 started, stalin was more feared then hitler and lenin stated the whole world must be communist. British, French and Americans had already been at war with the communists during the russian civil war, the allies invaded russia http://www.regiments.org/wars/20ww1/russia.htm and he may have wanted to continue the quest for world communisim

in ww2 all bombing raids were like terrorist attacks in a march 1945 raid on tokyo almost 17 square miles of the city were reduced to ashes. Estimates of the number killed range between 80,000

ammoship ------ -ussbush. com/slotow.htm
russian civil war ---.regiments.org/ wars/20ww1 /russia.htm

war is hell. anyone have the film of the ss john burke
ammunition ship exploding after getting hit by a kamikaze ?
cheers

Concidering you were able to write that stupid comment in ENGLISH .

Everyone! This is why there is no more lead based paint allowed in the US.

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Hezbollah aren't heroes.. they're extremists.

Get it right, yeah?

for you guys, yeah, they're extremist.. but for the people of lebanon, they are heroes.. all right?

is about as valuable as the mud on my boot