"B2431" wrote in message
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From: "weary"
Date: 1/6/2004 12:25 AM Central Standard Time
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"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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"weary" wrote:

"Chad Irby" wrote:

"weary" wrote:

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 pretty much every major unbombed military target in Japan at
the
time was *in* a large urban area.

Then why insisit on it? However you are wrong. The Target
Committee meeting that produced that requirement was held
10-11 May 1945, at which time the bombing campaign was still
in its relatively early stages.


That was before anyone in the system even knew about the atom bombs.

I don't understand the relevance of this comment.