How many soldiers did you kill with the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki?

I didn't kill any, being but a slip of a boy at the time, but the
likelihood at Hiroshima is that 20,000 soldiers and Korean forced
laborers were killed. At a guess, then, nearly a division's worth was
destroyed, not a bad day's work, especially considering that Hiroshima
was the headquarters of Second General Army (the equivalent of a
"command" in today's U.S. military).

Soldiers and Koreans were the two categories of people not on the rice
ration, so it is not easy to account for them, and the first estimates
of deaths simply omitted them.

See www.warbirdforum.com/hirodead.htm



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