This week's classes really reinforced for me the situation in the Pacific that led up to the decision to use the bomb. It must have seemed like such a dire situation there, with the fighting tactics of the Japanese. Iwo Jima and the lives lost there, hand-to-hand combat, in addition to the kamikaze pilots and the total unwillingness to surrender or give at all make the Japanese a formidable and terrifying foe.
In addition, the diverse types of terrain of the islands there would have been an added stress that I would not initially think of. It is just one more obstacle to have to consider when fighting there.
Friday, April 18, 2008
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