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Old 09-01-2008
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Re: The A Bombs Of Japan: necessary ???

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Originally Posted by htperr6565 View Post
I saw no discussion of Japan's war making abilities in 1945.

If anything, that report supports my argument, not yours. Japan was a very weak enemy.



If you looked at the link, how could you have missed the tables that state in big red letters and numbers that in 1945 alone, the Japanese had produced 17 destroyers, 30 subs, an unknown number of destroyer escorts, 599,563 tons of merchant ships, and 8,263 aircraft? Those were just the number produced that year and don’t include in number remaining in reserve, and further production ended in August with their unconditional surrender. Of course they were very weak, but that’s a far cry from capitulating.
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