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Dallas · 11-01-2007, 09:34 PM

He was a professional military officer with a tough job to do, and he did it. All current political correctness aside he and his aircrewman as well as the aircrew of Brocks Car (the other A-bomb aircraft) saved the US an estimated one million casualities if the US had had to invade Japan. There is no telling how many millions of Japanese casualities there would have been.

An interesting little tidbit of history is that the US govvernment ordered 1 million purple heart medals in early 1945 in anticipation of the invasion of Japan. Since the casualities never occurred the government has been handing out WWII era purple hearts ever since.

11-01-2007, 09:34 PM	#3
Dallas PUKHA DAWG Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Virginia, just outside of Washington D.C. Posts: 3,583	He was a professional military officer with a tough job to do, and he did it. All current political correctness aside he and his aircrewman as well as the aircrew of Brocks Car (the other A-bomb aircraft) saved the US an estimated one million casualities if the US had had to invade Japan. There is no telling how many millions of Japanese casualities there would have been. An interesting little tidbit of history is that the US govvernment ordered 1 million purple heart medals in early 1945 in anticipation of the invasion of Japan. Since the casualities never occurred the government has been handing out WWII era purple hearts ever since. __________________ Those who forget History are condemed to repeat it. Last edited by Dallas; 11-01-2007 at 09:41 PM.