Message from @Lyte

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2020-08-13 18:07:15 UTC  

@ComradeCosmonaut Sometimes i can’t tell if you’re trolling or not

2020-08-13 18:07:19 UTC  

Fire bombings did more damage then the atomic bomb, the Russians were on there way and japan was already on the brink of surrender

2020-08-13 18:07:33 UTC  

> @ComradeCosmonaut Sometimes i can’t tell if you’re trolling or not
@Lyte little bit of both

2020-08-13 18:07:44 UTC  

Their pride wouldn't allow a surrender

2020-08-13 18:07:50 UTC  

They didn’t want Japan split in half like Germany

2020-08-13 18:07:51 UTC  

Unless we did something drastic

2020-08-13 18:08:37 UTC  

because that’s what the soviets intended

2020-08-13 18:09:01 UTC  

I mean they still haven’t given back some of the northern island chain

2020-08-13 18:09:27 UTC  

Where Japan really lost was at the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

2020-08-13 18:09:40 UTC  

They lost everything after Midway wdym

2020-08-13 18:09:52 UTC  

They were on the defensive the rest of the war

2020-08-13 18:10:09 UTC  

What I mean is that they got roflstomped at those two battles in particular.

2020-08-13 18:10:24 UTC  

Which one was the Marianas Turkey shoot?

2020-08-13 18:10:26 UTC  

Midway was far more strategically important than Leyte Gulf or Philippine Sea

2020-08-13 18:10:31 UTC  

Philippine Sea

2020-08-13 18:10:50 UTC  

> Which one was the Marianas Turkey shoot?
@KumquatLord Philippine Sea

2020-08-13 18:10:59 UTC  

Ahh

2020-08-13 18:11:34 UTC  

They lost over 400 planes and the US lost 30. Thing was, we could afford those loses. They couldn't.

2020-08-13 18:11:39 UTC  

And yeah, midway was devastating because it killed their carrier fleet

2020-08-13 18:11:47 UTC  

It wasn’t the planes that hurt them

2020-08-13 18:12:03 UTC  

They had plenty of planes even during surrender

2020-08-13 18:12:17 UTC  

It was that they couldn’t train more pilots

2020-08-13 18:12:33 UTC  

> And yeah, midway was devastating because it killed their carrier fleet
@KumquatLord Philippine Sea was just the final nail in the coffin.

2020-08-13 18:12:42 UTC  

Leyte Gulf*

2020-08-13 18:12:57 UTC  

Leyte happened after and that’s when they lost rest of their carriers

2020-08-13 18:13:20 UTC  

They lost the biggest battleship ever built at Leyte too 😬

2020-08-13 18:13:51 UTC  

The Musashi.

2020-08-13 18:14:01 UTC  

No

2020-08-13 18:14:02 UTC  

Yamato

2020-08-13 18:14:12 UTC  

same class

2020-08-13 18:14:25 UTC  

Musashi and Yamato were both the same size

2020-08-13 18:14:29 UTC  

They're the only two super battleships ever built.

2020-08-13 18:14:31 UTC  

Musashi has so much space that could be used smh

2020-08-13 18:14:41 UTC  

At least they didnt construct IJN Izumo

2020-08-13 18:15:09 UTC  

wouldn’t have mattered

2020-08-13 18:15:14 UTC  

When Yamato exploded, the explosion was so huge it could be seen 99 miles away.

2020-08-13 18:15:20 UTC  

Battleships were outdated

2020-08-13 18:15:40 UTC  

Not surprising considering it was fully loaded

2020-08-13 18:17:04 UTC  

Battleships had their uses

2020-08-13 18:17:14 UTC  

even in the 90s

2020-08-13 18:17:18 UTC  

Land bombardment