"B2431" wrote in message
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From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 8/23/2004 6:29 PM Central Daylight Time
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Fred the Red Shirt wrote:

Truman's decision to use the A-bombs was opposed by most of his
military
advisers, including Le May, Eisenhower and MacArthur.

I am very interested in your source of information here.

LeMay is ridiculous, Eisenhower (in his memoirs) claimed he opposed the
decision when asked for his advice and MacArthur (also in his memoirs)
confessed to being upset (sick to his stomach) when informed of the
decision,
but made no protest.


BUFDRVR


Based on what I have read over the years I think MacArthur was upset he
wouldn't get to invade.

Bingo! You hit the nail on the head. Hardly surprising, I am afraid, given
his previous pique over not being able to invade Rabaul and his insistence
upon clearing the entire PI archipelago--rather typical of his notion that
his own glory came before the dictates of mission or men.

Brooks

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired