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Another article on the dropping the bomb : http://www.startribune.com/stories/191/5542115.html
small excerpts:
"More than 200,000 human beings died at Okinawa. Yet the battle, which lasted 82 days, offered only a taste of what lay ahead. The planned invasion of Japan would have dwarfed the D-Day landings in France. The Japanese, who had already made kamikaze attacks famous, were readying terrifying "suicide" weapons, including manned torpedoes and mines and underwater shelters to be detonated under landing craft."
"The bomb also saved millions of Asian noncombatants. Historian Robert Newman estimates that between 250,000 and 400,000 civilians were dying every month from brutality and disease under the Japanese occupation."
small excerpts:
"More than 200,000 human beings died at Okinawa. Yet the battle, which lasted 82 days, offered only a taste of what lay ahead. The planned invasion of Japan would have dwarfed the D-Day landings in France. The Japanese, who had already made kamikaze attacks famous, were readying terrifying "suicide" weapons, including manned torpedoes and mines and underwater shelters to be detonated under landing craft."
"The bomb also saved millions of Asian noncombatants. Historian Robert Newman estimates that between 250,000 and 400,000 civilians were dying every month from brutality and disease under the Japanese occupation."
