Just a historical reminder: The atomic bomb named “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, at 8:15 in the morning of August 6, 1945 — 62 years ago yesterday.
And here’s a decidedly American war-era newsreel capture of the event. Note the flowery language used by the narrator to brush over the savagery of the explosion.
– Ward
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… and then I tell people about Operation Downfall.
Yeah,we know the story.This is a site on military technology,the readers know their history.
But god,the narrator’s tone is horrible.The voice is typical of this period but the contrast with the reality that it describe is really disturbing.
hehe ward strikes again, the typical liberal feelery.
To Ward: Are the human remains in the Arizona at Pearl Harbor any less dead than the human remains at Hiroshima? Of course not. You would do well to remember the dead of Pearl Harbor got that way by a coward’s sneak attack. The dead of Hiroshima got that way because the very same coward wouldn’t surrender. The Japanese government started a war which we finished, and that governments bears total responsibility for opening Pandora’s box. I wonder why you are posting sympathy for devil on a military Web site. Doesn’t the ACLU or moveon.org let you post on their sites?
Hey, Ward:
Gunga, la gunga.
downwind:
So let me get this straight: You’re comparing roughly 2,400 Navy men killed in the line of duty aboard warships to almost 12,000 civilians killed while wandering around their hometown?
And Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack, but nothing I’ve ever read would suggest it was executed by cowards. Your logic is flawed, as well, with your “coward wouldn’t surrender” line. Most cowards have no trouble surrendering.
Besides yesterday was August 6 not December 7. We generally note historic events on or about the date they happened.
And Ardentor, is a “liberal” label all you got? Lame-age, shipmate.
Remembering this date is important. There isn’t a day to remember this like we have for Pearl Harbor or September 11th.
Remembering this is important not for the knee jerk feelings other posters may have, but it’s important for the following reasons:
-This is the consequence to atrocities (Nanking, Shanghai, Phillipines, Batang
-This is the consequence when a country initiate a war of aggression
-This is a reminder your victims have not forgotten, forgiveness is a different story.
-Don’t ever think your victims are afraid to repeat this if you try to go down the same path. Yes, even if it means starting another 40 years of Cold War II to stop you.
Shed a tear for ALL the dead, not just the ones glowing in the dark.
Ward: No, you didn’t get it straight. The comparison of Pearl Harbor dead to Hiroshima dead is that both came about because of the Tojo govt.’s decision to go to war with the USA. That
Hey, downwind:
Would you call yourself a conservative, a reactionary, or a crank?
downwind:
Your point is clouded by your personal attacks. Pity. We might have actually had an exchange of some value.
Can’t help but wonder how someone could compare the attack on Pearl Harbor, during peace time, to the necessarily brutal culmination of a horrendous war. In December of 1941, America was pretty comfortable sleeping in on a Sunday morning, because the only war in the near future seemed to be at least a couple thousand miles away. Japan’s government changed that, not only by killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in China, by raping the thousands of women that were needed for their comfort women detachments, by killing and/or starving American/Australian/New Zealand soldiers they captured early in the war, but by attacking a nation that they were not at war with…
Fuchida wasn’t a coward, but the men that sent him to attack America in a time of peace were.
Thank God, Truman had the courage to end the war as quickly as possible.
downwind, if there is a judgement day, it will be made possible by people like you.