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Lecivius -> RE: OT Things to ponder (11/1/2016 2:56:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: geofflambert
This quiz was pretty easy but I only remember getting one wrong, not two. The one I remember getting wrong was about what the next planned target was after Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The multiple choice was Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. I picked Osaka. They said Tokyo. If it were up to me it would've been Osaka.
Curious. I thought it was decided not to bomb Tokyo with nukes. I would have picked Osaka as well.
Off To The Internet!!
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I do believe your test was incorrect [&:] While this is but one article, I can't find anything to suggest Tokyo was an approved target. Just a pipe dream by the folks in the field.
http://www.warbirdforum.com/third.htm
In the Spaatz Papers at the Library of Congress manuscript section, there is much radio traffic generated on Tinian in the second week of August. The U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces wanted the third bomb to be dropped on Tokyo as a wakeup call for the Japanese government, which was stalling on agreeing to the United Nations surrender terms. (That this could have been seriously proposed is an indication of how woefully uninformed USASTAF was about the destructive power of the weapons it had delivered to the Empire.) Back came a message, presumably from Hap Arnold, saying that the decision had already been made that the target would be Sapporo in the northern island of Hokkaido. (I read this material while researching a magazine article in 1995.)
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A much more detailed answer...
http://www.dannen.com/decision/targets.html
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