Title: Iwo Jima Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Nov 11, 2010 Author:various Post Date:2010-11-11 22:33:51 by Jethro Tull Keywords:None Views:108 Comments:3
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My New World mentor was a then 17 year old Marine from Philadelphia who island hopped from Tarawa to Iwo Jima. There are no university classes that could teach me what he offered.. God bless Ed Balajeski and his generation. We won't see their likes again.
The Japanese tried to surrender after the Battle of Leyte Gulf. MacArthur advised FDR to accept their surrender. FDR refused so his friend Joe Stalin would have enough time to conquer eastern Europe. My uncle was injured and had 23 operations after FDR refused to end the war.
The Japanese tried to surrender after the Battle of Leyte Gulf. MacArthur advised FDR to accept their surrender. FDR refused so his friend Joe Stalin would have enough time to conquer eastern Europe. My uncle was injured and had 23 operations after FDR refused to end the war.
FDR had been pouring lotsa bucks into the Manhattan Project abomination for years -- billions and billions of dollars by today's equivalency. He started doing that before Pearl Harbor and that was the actual "New Deal", then voila -- when he was sold on the development plan and started the money funneling to it for uranium purchases, our economy that had been held hostage by the Great Depression until then was permitted to start recovering. Perhaps it's being held hostage now until Israel and the banksters get us into a war with Iran like they want?
Even though our Naval blockade was working and the Japanese were close to surrendering, Truman [Edit to add: robbed our Pacific troops of the victory they had fought and died for and gave it to the Manhattan Project "suits". He] wouldn't allow the war to end until the atomic bombs were ready to be dropped. He wasn't concerned about prolonging casualties to our troops. He didn't order the bombs dropped to reduce our casualties by a land invasion of Japan. He and the Manhattan Project monsters wanted to display a "spectacular effect" so as to "justify" all that exorbitant funding and so the demonstration would "justify" more such projects and spending thereafter.
The Target Committee of the Manhattan project believed it was desirable that the first use of the bomb be (according to notes, memos and documents formerly classified top secret for a generation) "sufficiently spectacular for the importance of the weapon to be internationally recognized when publicity on it was released."
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The desire was that there be little or no prior bomb damage. For example, the damage already done to Tokyo by regular bombing would detract from the "spectacular" effect and measurement of the bomb's true power. Tokyo was thus excluded from the target list..
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC