LogFAQs > #891262056

LurkerFAQs, Active DB, DB1, Database 2 ( 09.16.2017-02.21.2018 ), DB3, DB4, DB5, DB6, DB7, DB8, DB9, DB10, DB11, DB12, Clear

Topic List	Page List: 1
Topic	Is it okay to kill civilians in war?
MacrossSpecial 11/29/17 9:27:45 AM #46:	Darth_CiD posted... Solid Sonic posted... Darth_CiD posted... The US military themselves dropped pamphlets in the weeks leading up to it to warn all civilians to leave I actually never heard of that. I know the squadron that dropped the bomb immediately felt remorse for doing so but I wasn't aware the US was trying to warn people it was going to happen. https://www.atomicheritage.org/key-documents/warning-leaflets As usual, my memory is a bit spotty on the subject so here is some more accurate information. It is argued that this isn't true. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-US-dropped-flyers-as-a-warning-before-bombing-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki So fervently among American and Japanese historians that this "fact" was removed from US Air Force OTS history classes Also, the firebombings in Germany and Japan killed around five times as many people and had no warnings besides the populations generally knowing that they were at war. --- ...Dude, you're a **ing douche. Get off my god damn internets. - RX7Infinitilll <cite>MacrossSpecial posted [p:891262056] in Is it okay... [t:76035585]...</cite> <quote><cite>Darth_CiD posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Solid Sonic posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Darth_CiD posted...</cite> <quote>The US military themselves dropped pamphlets in the weeks leading up to it to warn all civilians to leave</quote> I actually never heard of that. I know the squadron that dropped the bomb immediately felt remorse for doing so but I wasn't aware the US was trying to warn people it was going to happen.</quote> https://www.atomicheritage.org/key-documents/warning-leaflets As usual, my memory is a bit spotty on the subject so here is some more accurate information.</quote> It is argued that this isn't true. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-US-dropped-flyers-as-a-warning-before-bombing-Hiroshima-and-Nagasaki So fervently among American and Japanese historians that this "fact" was removed from US Air Force OTS history classes Also, the firebombings in Germany and Japan killed around five times as many people and had no warnings besides the populations generally knowing that they were at war. --- ...Dude, you're a **ing douche. Get off my god damn internets. - RX7Infinitilll</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List	Page List: 1