Quote Originally Posted by An don View Post
simple as this Pearl harbour was a military target , hiroshima wasnt
Hiroshima was a target at the time of bombing, Hirshima was a city of considerable industrial and military significance. Even some military camps were located nearby, such as the headquarters of the Fifth Division and Field Marshal Shunroku Hata's 2nd General Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. Hiroshima was a major supply and logistics base for the Japanese military. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops. It was one of several Japanese cities left deliberately untouched by American bombing, allowing an ideal environment to measure the damage caused by the atomic bomb. Another account stresses that after General Spaatz reported that Hiroshima was the only targeted city without POW-camps, Washington decided to assign it highest priority.

"The cities of japan are a vaild target because the heavy disperal of industry in congested areas...

the object was to destroy the industrial and stratgetic targets concertrated in those urban areas....

It was their system of dispersal of industry. All you had to do was visit one of those targets after we roasted it, and see the ruins of a multitude of tiny houses, with a drill press sticking up through the wreckage of every home. The entire population got into the act and worked to make those airplanes or munitions of war... men, women, children. We knew we were going to kill a lot of women and kids when we burned that town. Had to be done."
General Curtis Lemay

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