I respectively disagree. Everything I’ve ever seen or read shows that it is simply not in the nature of that culture to surrender. As to civilians we had already been fire bombing Tokyo and over 100 other cities as well as Dresden and other cities in Germany. Hitler didn’t worry about civilians with his attacks on England. No. I’m not advocating any of this but many American lives were saved by not having a ground war in Japan.
OK I remember the name Ralph but not his story. Helen? Not at all. Timmy? All I got is the fable that he sent Lassie to get help when he fell in the well.
I respectively disagree. Everything I’ve ever seen or read shows that it is simply not in the nature of that culture to surrender. As to civilians we had already been fire bombing Tokyo and over 100 other cities as well as Dresden and other cities in Germany. Hitler didn’t worry about civilians with his attacks on England. No. I’m not advocating any of this but many American lives were saved by not having a ground war in Japan.