1.8 Tonne Bomb

Imagine how many more of those are laying around . It would be unfortunate if one of those went of under a family court house . (Sarc)

It wasn’t till 1963 when Alan Irving published “The Destruction of Dresden” that the general population became aware of the deliberate mass targeting of German civilians for no other reason than revenge and spite.
The BBC did a documentary “The Savage Peace” that detailed how the German people suffered murderous persecution even after the war had ended.

The vast majority of Germans had nothing to do with the Nazis. They got swept along just the same as Americans got swept along with McCarthyism, or now, Political Correctness.
Just see what happens to anyone in society who stands up to the insanity of Political Correctness in any Western country.

Think it was a good idea the geneva convention put a ban on plastic land mines . Hard to detect and very long life span .

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It wasn’t till 1963 when Alan Irving published “The Destruction of Dresden” that the general population became aware of the deliberate mass targeting of German civilians for no other reason than revenge and spite.
The BBC did a documentary “The Savage Peace” that detailed how the German people suffered murderous persecution even after the war had ended.

The vast majority of Germans had nothing to do with the Nazis. They got swept along just the same as Americans got swept along with McCarthyism, or now, Political Correctness.
Just see what happens to anyone in society who stands up to the insanity of Political Correctness in any Western country.

YUP! Good post T-428!

The Dresden incineration bombing campaign sucked people down the street into the flames like little paper people cutouts, the drafting dynamics caused hurricane force winds.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the nuclear end, before that thermal nuclear bombing was done, indiscriminate incendiary carpet bombing was done to Tokyo, Kube, and other Japanese paper, wood, and bamboo cities.

The long range enormous B29 flew sorties as fast as the pacific supply line would allow it.

We almost lost that war from the beginning, had the Japanese stopped their ring of defense strategy and gone for all our west coast aircraft industry the airplanes needed to win the war on several continents never would have happened.

We would be the ones finding German bombs, complements of Germany’s aircraft industry!

The only thing that stopped Japan from invading was Tojo saying that behind every blade of grass (in America) there’s a gun.

Our 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms is the only reason we weren’t destroyed in WW-II. Once again proving the pen of freedom is mightier than the sword of war!

After the last administration (not saying names) I feel we’re in a state of appeasement at the expense of individual and national sovereignty loosing our future security.

It feels like Prime Minister Neville Camberlain is leaving office and Prime Minister Winston Churchill is stepping in.

I hope for once in the last 50+ years THIS ONE F~~~ING TIME, history is repeating itself!

I’m not so sure it’s a valid comparison to mention the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings to the allied bombings in Europe.
Anyone who followed the war in the Pacific would have no doubts about the catastrophic price paid in young American men’s lives that an invasion of mainland Japan would have cost.
Their ring of defence strategy virtually demanded military and civilian suicide.
The average Japanese, almost the entire population, was totally brainwashed. Even after the two bombs were dropped it was only the desperate action of a small group supporting the emperor that peace followed. The average Japanese was in a state of shock about surrender. To them, it was unthinkable.
If it wasn’t for the two bombs the loss of life would have been unimaginable.

The average German on the other hand got sick and tired of the war very early on. Hence the many assassination attempts on Hitler.
After Stalingrad they all knew it was over. There was no need at all to bomb civilians.

It wasn’t till the bombing of North Vietnam that military strategists officially accepted the reality that all civilian bombing unites people and strengthens their resistance. The two Japan bombs stand alone in ending a war.

Funny thing is, every now and then they find one of those massive bombs lying around. What do we Europeans do? We f~~~ing shrug. That’s it. How cool is that?