HIROSHIMA A NECESSARY EVIL [View All]

This is one subject that should not be a controversy
On the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima by the 509th composite
B-29 group, Enola Gay, Col. Paul Tibbetts commanding.
President Truman made the right decision
Not only for the troops that would have landed
on Japan's beaches in Operation Olympic and Coronet
But also for the thousands of POW's that were
starving, malnurished, and diseased.
One, Commander Dick Okane of the Submarine
USS Tang was so weak, that he might have
had only days left, he later was awarded
the Medal of Honor, for the most ships sunk
by a sub. The famous Pappy Boyington was also
at Ofuna camp, and like Okane might have had
only a few days left to live.
There are many other reasons, such as the
horrible treatment of POW's from Wake Island
to New Guinea to the Phillipines.
Japan started the war at Pearl Harbor, the
US simply ended it on 2nd September 1945
After using the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki