The Firebombing of Tokyo
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The Firebombing of Tokyo
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#2Dresden was fire bombed too.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_firebombing
I think 40m-50m civilians died in WW2.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
It sure would have been nice to avoid the war. America certainly didn't want to be part of it.
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#3Dresden was fire bombed too. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_firebombing I think 40m-50m civilians died in WW2. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties It sure would have been nice to avoid the war. America certainly didn't want to be part of it. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Reuben_James_(DD-245)
Don't know how you can say that they certainly didn't want to be part of it, when their actions tell a different story. Lend-Lease for instance.
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#4Related conversation on a different article on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9168597
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#5Dresden was fire bombed too. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_firebombing I think 40m-50m civilians died in WW2. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties It sure would have been nice to avoid the war. America certainly didn't want to be part of it. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Reuben_James_(DD-245)
Yea, we should've let Hitler have Europe. Good idea.
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#6>> Seventy years ago today, the United States needlessly killed almost 100,000 people in a single air raid over Tokyo.
War is never a good thing, but this line makes no sense.
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#7Related read: "Bombing civilians is not only immoral, it's ineffective" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/27/comment...
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#8People forget history is written by the victors.
For example, on Sept 11th 1944, my hometown of Darmstadt (a unprotected city of little strategic importance that late in the war: it had a single north-south / east-west railroad crossing, that's it) was bombed with white phosphorus by the British. 10,000 civilians died in the first few hours. 1/3 of the city was leveled. It's not clear to me right now, but my parents told me that white phosphorus was against the geneva convention even at the time.
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#9People forget history is written by the victors. For example, on Sept 11th 1944, my hometown of Darmstadt (a unprotected city of little strategic importance that late in the war: it had a single north-south / east-west railroad crossing, that's it) was bombed with white phosphorus by the British. 10,000 civilians died in the first few hours. 1/3 of the city was leveled. It's not clear to me right now, but my parents…
Thankfully, someone is writing the history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt#Nazi_Germany
Re: The Firebombing of Tokyo
#10People forget history is written by the victors. For example, on Sept 11th 1944, my hometown of Darmstadt (a unprotected city of little strategic importance that late in the war: it had a single north-south / east-west railroad crossing, that's it) was bombed with white phosphorus by the British. 10,000 civilians died in the first few hours. 1/3 of the city was leveled. It's not clear to me right now, but my parents…
Thankfully, someone is writing the history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt#Nazi_Germany
I saw that a while ago. I hand't known about the resistance, either, that's amazing.