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  • I’m legitimately not going to watch a propaganda video, but going by the information the US had at the time and what the Japanese was saying and period official estimates of US and Japanese military casualties and Japanese civilian casualties, it saved lives. That’s just factual reality.

    I am aware that there’s some people who try to revise history and reinvent the Japanese Empire into a state of almost being ready to surrender anyways, but using information not available to the Allies at the time is operating with massive benefit of hindsight, and it isn’t true, anyways. Both the Soviet invasion and the bomb prevented the invasion and saved lives. I’m sorry, but that’s just the truth.


  • Ehh, the A6M wasn’t an amazing fighter and the Japanese had other comparable models. It was superior against early war fighters and fighter tactics but even US fighter pilots in f4f’s outclassed them when their tactics were adjusted.

    He didn’t really cause much in terms of suffering which wouldn’t have been caused by any other competent fighter pilot designer.

    It’s a cool plane, though.

    Oppenheimer probably saved a million or so lives by enabling the US to win the war against Japan without an amphibious invasion of the home islands.