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April 2, 2015
Okinawa – grim reality in Japanese underground hospital - See more at: http://ww2today.com/3-april-1945-okinawa-grim-reality-in-japanese-underground-hospital#sthash.wHNzhcMK.dpuf
April 3, 1945: Outside was a rain of bullets from morning to night.In the evening, it quieted down a little. It was then that we carried out limbs and corpses. There were so many shell craters — it sounds funny to say it, but we considered that fortunate: holes already dug for us. “One, two, three!” we’d chant, and all together we’d heave the dead body into a hole, before crawling back to the cave. There was no time for sobbing or lamentation. WW2 Today
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 2, 2015 10:41 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Okinawa was one of the reasons for Hiroshima, and Hiroshima was one of the reasons for Nagasaki. The Japanese did not surrender after Hiroshima.
The object lesson of Okinawa was that it was a microcosm of what to expect on the Japanese main islands.
Those two bombs saved not only several hundred thousand Americans, but also several million Japanese.
Posted by: DonRodrigo at April 3, 2015 12:38 PM
I always send articles like this one to my youngest daughter, 26, who cannot be wise beyond her experience, to see the experience of someone which more reflects the world ans yet still lives in hers.
Posted by: james wilson at April 3, 2015 2:13 PM