74 YEARS-AGO TODAY, 8AM, OAHU, HAWAII
Posted in Uncategorized by Baba - Dec 07, 2015
The statistics:
United States of America-
2 battleships totally lost
2 battleships sunk and recovered
3 battleships damaged
1 battleship grounded
2 other ships sunk
3 cruisers damaged
3 destroyers damaged
3 other ships damaged
188 aircraft destroyed
159 aircraft damaged
2,403 killed
1,178 wounded
Civilian casualties-
68 killed
35 wounded
Imperial Japan-
4 midget submarines sunk
1 midget submarine grounded
29 aircraft destroyed
64 killed
1 captured
Civilian casualties-
Zero immediate, but 129,000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 44-months later.
Note:
From Harry Truman’s diary regarding the atomic bomb…
“This weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital [Kyoto] or the new [Tokyo]. He and I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one.”