Hiroshima justified? (was Enola Gay: Burnt flesh and other magnificent technological achievements)

What were you doing on those particular days? What was the environment
like when everyone heard the news?

ArtKramr wrote:

Subject: Hiroshima justified? (was Enola Gay: Burnt flesh and other
magnificent technological achievements)
From: "weary"
Date: 12/27/03 6:06 PM Pacific Standard Time
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From: (cave fish)


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The horror of Hiroshima is the sheer indiscrimate nature of the
destruction. If atom bomb had been dropped on a Japanese military
target it might have been justified. But, to kill like that in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki was blind and savage overkill.



There WERE military targets in Nagasaki and Hiroshima and I'm not talking


about


the civilians.

Nagasaki was a functioning port. Hiroshima had a army divisions and


training


facilities as well as some mines with POWs working in them.

If you had been following this thread you'd have known this by now.


The aiming point for the Hiroshima bomb was a bridge in a mainly
residential area, not any of the military or industrial assets. By
definition
the target was civilians since that is where the bomb was aimed.





As a trained and experienced bombardier I wish I could have been on the Enola
Gay that day. I would have had the honor of bringing to an end the worst war
the world has ever seen.But I was busy in Eirope at that time.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
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