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This thread is on eleven years of Chicagoboyz blog VJ-Day commemorative columns.
This thread is on eleven years of Chicagoboyz blog VJ-Day commemorative columns.
2010 – Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Saving Hirohito’s Phony Baloney Job
This column is why it took both atomic bombs and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria to get the Japanese military to surrender
chicagoboyz.net/archives/14610…
This column is why it took both atomic bombs and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria to get the Japanese military to surrender
chicagoboyz.net/archives/14610…
2010 - Hiroshima — The A-bomb plus 65 years
This is focused on Richard B. Frank's column
"Why Truman Dropped the Bomb"
Sixty years after Hiroshima, we now have the secret intercepts that influenced his decision.
chicagoboyz.net/archives/14488…
This is focused on Richard B. Frank's column
"Why Truman Dropped the Bomb"
Sixty years after Hiroshima, we now have the secret intercepts that influenced his decision.
chicagoboyz.net/archives/14488…
1/ My late father, Brian Rowntree’s (centre) letter home, from his ship #hmsindefatigable , about #VJDay
( #VJDay75 thread):
“Well, we have got a third and last surrender, after all that suspense. Censorship has been lifted this morning, so I can spread myself in this”
( #VJDay75 thread):
“Well, we have got a third and last surrender, after all that suspense. Censorship has been lifted this morning, so I can spread myself in this”
2/ “Rumours were driving us mental... on the morning the Japs threw in the towel, we were as usual at action stations & we had a strike out over Tokyo Bay. They came back, having knocked down six, and we cancelled our further planned strikes...
3/ “and the Commander broadcast & pointed out that the flagship was flying the signal ‘cease activities against Japan’. We all leaned over the rail and were goofing at the string of the bunting, when...
