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There were 110,000 Japanese-American on the Hawaiian Islands during WW II. 320 Japanese-American citizens were interned across the Islands, with an additional 800 moved to the mainland. there were, to be very clear, a small percentage of Japanese-Americans who were, in fact, working against the...

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Oh, I never bought Gobbel’s BS (he was the first one to rollout the 200k figure shortly after the attacks). The simple truth remains that no one really knows, with absolute certainty, how many deaths actually occurred. Too many variables. No one knows who was actually there (if someone died and...

Even with a parachute you can only slow down the bomb to a certain point. The Lincoln, on the other hand, had performance closer to the Silverplates, with a top speed to 310mph and a ceiling of 30,000 feet. That would make it marginal, at best, but far better than the slower, far lower...

Population of Dresden was vastly higher in 1945 than today since it was, in addition to a major supply center for the Wehrmacht forces trying to hold off the Red Army. In addition to the approx.360,000 permanent residents of the city there were estimated to be roughly 800,000 refugees in the...

Sure. Max bomb load was 14,000 pounds Survive it? Not a chance in Hell. The Lancaster capped out at 282mph with an 8,000 pound Bomb Load, at 13,000 feet. Little Boy was 9,700 pounds while Fat Man weighed in at Max altitude for the aircraft was was ~21,500 feet with same bomb load. B-29...

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This hits at a VERY important issue. The global Nuclear Taboo, which has undoubtedly prevented at least one, possibly more post 1945 uses of the "Specials" was, in large part, thanks to the perception of what the Bomb did in Japan as the actual frank effects. Hit the Reich and Hitler tells the...

This proceeds for a series of false assumptions. 1. No one really understood the implications of radioactive fallout in 1945*. U.S. invasions planning for Japan anticipated using, after a third military high value/population center strike with a Bomb, to use up to SEVEN weapons in what amounted...

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Slow your roll a bit. You've posted seven or eight threads TODAY, all of them open ended discissions. Let's wee what sort of discussions you gotten going before strafing the Board with even more. Kay?

Jerrycans? Are you posting from the Western Desert in 1941? If not drop the WW II terminology.