Until the emperor announced they were surrendering

They actually made so many purple heart medals for the planned air land and sea invasion of Japan they were still handing them out in the Iraq war

It was a smart move not nuking Tokyo though, they venerated the emperor like a god

They didnt plan on surrenderin, amd we didnt wanna risk the lives of millions of human lives trying to take Japan with human bodies. Was the most tactical solution out there

Sacrifice a few thousand to save the lives of millions

Now both cities and Japan itself are thriving

Yep

One poor guy survived both

worked in Hiroshima then gets sent home to Nagasaki, lived to 93

Wassup ma bois

> They actually made so many purple heart medals for the planned air land and sea invasion of Japan they were still handing them out in the Iraq war
@KumquatLord
That was the plan for Operation Downfall

> They didnt plan on surrenderin, amd we didnt wanna risk the lives of millions of human lives trying to take Japan with human bodies. Was the most tactical solution out there
@Zilla the Japanese military was actually willing to use every able bodied man and woman to defend the home islands

Mhhm

Like even though they are severely depleted in terms of arms (the Americans surely have more advanced weapons at this point) Japanese troops when conscripted with the population would immensely outnumber the Americans

Mhm

Not to mention the terrain which they will fight in, suitable to guérilla warfare, thus prolonging the war and causing more casualties

Even an illequiped army can be dangerous when using their environment

russian winter

> Even an illequiped army can be dangerous when using their environment
@Zilla Yes!

a true classic

@Zilla you know the Indonesian army was very ill equipped compared to the Dutch and the British , yet we won our war of independence

Nice

Like this poster in my room kinda shows it
The top row of numbers is the number of killed
Second row is wounded
Last row is Missing/captured

👌

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/07/mount-washington-home-of-world-worst.html?m=1

Come fight up in the mountains of New Hampshire....

We chain down our building up in this Mafk

Dam

We just had a guy hike the ravine here to snowboard the bowl and fell off one side. He fell like 1600 ft down the mtn and lived.

There’s people snowboarding up there till the end of July

damn how he survive that?

Idk

People survive a whole lot of crazy shit, ever heard of a woman who fell out of an airplane and survived because she landed right on top of an ant pile and the bites from the ants kept her nervous system active enough for paramedics to save her

Bless the colony

Humans are surprisingly highly durable creatures under the right circumstances

https://youtu.be/2uOr6oOwe4E

Careful. You might cry a little

Damn

awww

@AlWalid how was the movie?