"B2431" wrote in message
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From: "weary"
Date: 1/2/2004 5:02 PM Central Standard Time
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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"weary" wrote:

"Greg Hennessy" wrote in message
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agor...hirodamap.html

Ohh look at that. The HQ of the local military district right in
the
zone
of complete destruction.

Which seems to be the only military asset in the zone.

This map doesn't show the rest of the details. That Military District
Headquarters held the 11th Infantry Regiment, the 5th Division
Headquarters, a major artillery detachment, and a number of other
things, including the Prefectural office and the City Hall. It was
also
the HQ of the invasion defense of that entire section of the island.

If you're dropping a nuke on Hiroshima in 1945, you couldn't do a whole
lot better for targeting.

Its clear that the people were the real target.

Yeah, the military people.

Then why did the targetting demand that the target must be
in a large urban atrea?


Because that's where the valid military targets were. I don't understand
why
you can't see that.

Because in that case all that was necessary was to specify a valid military
target.
I don't understand why you can't see that.
However,