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Father George Benedict Zabelka renounce or denounce?[edit]

"The bombers' chaplain, Father George Benedict Zabelka, would later renounce the bombings after visiting Nagasaki with two fellow chaplains."

I think this is meant to say "denounce."

Alternatives[edit]

I could think of many alternatives to the bombings, most obviously a demo for the enemy brass on an uninhabited island near Japan, for example. Could an expert on this topic here add a paragraph why just conventional war and nuking cities were considered?

Note 45 is weak, here's a better one[edit]

The source to General LeMay's quote on why he ordered systematic bombing in the section 'Part of Total War' is not incorrect, but it's just some plaintext website with no proper citation. The origin is from LeMay's autobiography 'Mission with LeMay; my story' published in 1965, page 384.
A scan of the book can be read in its entirety by registering for free on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/missionwithlemay00lema/page/n13/mode/2up 46.123.254.89 (talk) 00:02, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General Marshall[edit]

On this page (and the one for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in general) there is a general marshall mentioned with not further information about who this is or what his relation to these events was. There is a page for him on wiki, George Marshall, and it isn't linked in either of these articles, I found it via google. Just a heads up. I don't have the time or experience editing to do this myself. 217.180.219.210 (talk) 04:15, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is the one. Senorangel (talk) 01:32, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

missing[edit]

What's missing from this article is discussion of the war crimes the Japanese were committing in all territories that they entered. Revisionist history would have us believe that the U.S. hit Japan w/ two A-bombs without provocation. Japan does not acknowledge its own role leading up to the use of atomic weapons. They do not acknowledge that the Japanese Imperial Army beheaded, raped and mass-murdered millions of people. So was the a-bomb justified? I think it depends on who you ask. If you ask someone who was brutalized by the Japanese during the war, the answer would be an unequivocal "yes." 47.138.93.44 (talk) 03:58, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]