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To: TimF who wrote (61567)	4/24/2008 3:55:09 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 542199

Tokyo could have become Stalingrad Exactly....and the military commanders of the time had every reason to believe that it would become so. Slacker

To: TimF who wrote (61567)	4/24/2008 4:02:37 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542199

>>And its not as if all the civilians killed where killed by bombing. Clearly a majority where, but going forward they faced starvation from the US submarine action against Japanese shipping.<< Tim - Well, don't forget that they had already lost two million military personnel by the summer of 1945. And do you not think that starvation wouldn't have eventually caused them to surrender? Would the Emperor have allowed half a million people to die before accepting the inevitable? Particularly with his military might reduced to such a sad state? I don't think we can know the answers. War is Hell. - Allen