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I heard him interviewed on local radio when he was a guest dignitary at a World War Two Weekend Air Show. He was quite a gentleman and had some amazing stories.
There is a myth in Asian countries that every crew member of the planes that dropped nuclear warheads on Japan committed suicide. A caller to the radio show believed it and was later corrected when it was pointed out that some members attended the local event.
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We're approaching the time of year when someone will no doubt start a thread saying how wrong we were to use nuclear weapons against Japan.
I say Thank You! to Dutch and every other member of the crews of the Enola Gay and Bockscar as well as to Harry Truman for ordering the missions that brought a swift end to WWII and saved both American and Japanese lives by making an invasion of the Japanese mainland unnecessary.
We're approaching the time of year when someone will no doubt start a thread saying how wrong we were to use nuclear weapons against Japan.
I say Thank You! to Dutch and every other member of the crews of the Enola Gay and Bockscar as well as to Harry Truman for ordering the missions that brought a swift end to WWII and saved both American and Japanese lives by making an invasion of the Japanese mainland unnecessary.
Right on! My father had been in Europe. When that battle front ended in April 1945 he was shipped back to the east coast, and was on a train headed west for deployment for the planned invasion of Japan when the Japanese surrendered. I believe that he was in Kansas City when they got the news, and pretty soon was able to head home to Fort Worth.
An invasion of Japan would have been very, very ugly.
We're approaching the time of year when someone will no doubt start a thread saying how wrong we were to use nuclear weapons against Japan.
I say Thank You! to Dutch and every other member of the crews of the Enola Gay and Bockscar as well as to Harry Truman for ordering the missions that brought a swift end to WWII and saved both American and Japanese lives by making an invasion of the Japanese mainland unnecessary.
You know when box car landed it had only 11 gallons of fuel left....11 out of 11,000.
We're approaching the time of year when someone will no doubt start a thread saying how wrong we were to use nuclear weapons against Japan.
I say Thank You! to Dutch and every other member of the crews of the Enola Gay and Bockscar as well as to Harry Truman for ordering the missions that brought a swift end to WWII and saved both American and Japanese lives by making an invasion of the Japanese mainland unnecessary.
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He was a useful tool who helped incinerate hundreds of thousands.
And the alternative was WHAT?
Phoning the Emperor and asking him to 'play nice'?
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