Friday, April 18, 2008

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.

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