What with all the discussion after release of Oppenheimer, and how the USA’s bombing of Japan was criminal, here is Bill with the facts and his opinion.
Good to see a Whittle Afterburner – it’s been a long time!
Bill: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the Second World War. Don’t take my word for it: hear it from the lips of the one person capable of making that decision.
Recorded in 2009.
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My brother, age 19 at the time, was a sailor serving on the USS Comfort off Okinawa when it was hit by a kamikaze pilot. A report:
Through war and peace, American hospital ships have served the country since 1804 and the First Barbary War. Although these floating hospitals embark on missions of mercy, they have also become casualties of war. During World War II, two dozen hospital ships were sunk by enemy fire, and a critical hospital ship sustained a damaging attack in the war’s waning weeks.
Commissioned in 1944, the second USS Comfort ferried injured servicemen from the Pacific Theater battlefields to field hospitals in Australia, New Guinea and the United States. As Allied forces made their final push toward Japan in April 1945, the U.S. Navy hospital ship joined the invasion force at the Battle of Okinawa.
[. . .] The hospital ship’s bright white paint glistened in the glow of a full moon as it sailed 50 miles offshore from Okinawa on the night of April 28, 1945. Inside the post-surgical ward of the USS Comfort, Howard began her 12-hour night shift treating some of the 517 patients aboard the ship.
She had become used to hearing enemy planes roar overhead and feeling the vessel quake so violently it felt like it might overturn when nearby ships sank beneath the roiling waters. But as she was standing near her medicine cabinet loading a syringe with penicillin, she felt a jolt unlike any before.
“I had to grab a stool because the ship was shaking,” recalls Howard, who turned 100 years of age in 2020. “And over the loudspeaker came the call, ‘Abandon ship! Abandon ship!’”
The USS Comfort had been hit by a Japanese suicide pilot who had directed his plane at the massive Red Cross emblem painted on the ship’s hull as if it were a bullseye. The kamikaze attack struck the heart of the floating hospital, plunging through its decks and into the surgery unit, instantly killing six nurses, four surgeons and seven patients. [. . .]
As rescue teams searched the wreckage and doused the fires, the abandon ship order was rescinded. With their surgical, X-ray and laboratory facilities destroyed, the medical staff aboard the USS Comfort converted the mess hall into an operating room and the barber shop into a first aid station.
According to a U.S. Navy report, the casualties among the ship’s 700 passengers included 30 deaths, 48 injuries and one service member missing in action. Howard’s hearing gradually returned, and she continued on her regular shifts. Now wounded itself, the crippled hospital ship sailed to Guam and received temporary repairs before continuing on to California.
https://www.history.com/news/hospital-ship-uss-comfort-world-war-ii-kamikaze-attack
One of the nurses who was killed was my brother’s sweetheart.
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PS: My brother was 21 years older than I am!
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Another good reason to give up the boob tube! I never did care too much for a comedian! Some were good and others, not so!
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I have always had questions about this subject, but never had enough information to really understand it. To be honest, I did believe that it did stop the war. At the end of the video I realized that the very people who condemned the dropping of the bomb might not have ever existed if it hadn’t been dropped.
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The question to ask these comedians to get them looking straight would be “Have you ever looked death square in the face and come out a winner? That is something a very large majority never confronted! It changes your outlook! I wonder if anyone had the ‘nads to ask them if they believe in God! The correct answer from Mr. Stewart would have been, “it’s not my place to pass judgement on that.” POTUS has ALL the facts at his disposal! Mr. Stewart is speculating on that! Opinions are like rear ernds, everybody has one! IMHO.
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