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'You incinerated two of our cities'


Actually, by the end of the war only three cities in Japan had not been incinerated.

Japanese cities with their heavy dependence on wooden construction were ideal for the use of the "firestorm" bombing technique that leveled Hamburg and Dresden, and the US Army Air Corps plan was to systematically apply it to every city in Japan except Kyoto, which was off limits because the Secretary of War went there on his honeymoon. By the time the atomic bomb was ready there were only four cities left on the list of targets--Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Niigata, and Kokura. Hiroshima would have been destroyed one way or another.

If the writer of this thing is unaware of this, one wonders what other lapses there were in his research.

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I'm guessing they're referring to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the 2 atomic bombings. Kind of a confusing choice of words considering all the firebombing of Japanese cities that had been going on throughout the war.

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Kokura was supposed to get the second bomb, but since there was haze over the target, Nagasaki was selected instead. Talk about your bad luck with weather.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima.htm

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Talk about your bad luck with weather.
Sounds like pretty good luck for Kokura though.

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Kokura lucked out TWICE, not just once.

On the Aug 6th mission, Kokura was the secondary target if Hiroshima had bad weather. There was good weather and Hiroshima went down into the history books.

By Aug 9th, the secondary from the earlier mission was now the primary target and Kokura was again slated for destruction. But 70% cloud cover had developed so they shifted to the Secondary target, Nagasaki.


I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!

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I saw that line too in the trailer. I didn't take it as trying to portray that all the rest of the Japanese cities were untouched. He was just be dramatic about the atomic bombings. Thus I don't think it a failure on the part of the writer in learning his history. You'll have to show a lot more than that simple line before I sign on to the "The writer don't know WTF he's talking about" bandwagon (ala Last Resort)

I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!

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That is why the Japanese speak of "Kokura's luck" in case of extreme fortune.

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Kokura no un.

I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Niigata, and Kokura. Hiroshima would have been destroyed one way or another.

True and firebombing does not come with radiation sickness.

I'd take a firebombing over getting nuked.

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