• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It was 3 days later. The government knew about the results of the first bomb and still didn’t surrender.

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      1 month ago

      Well they also interrogated POWs after the 1st and someone lied and said the US had massive supplies of them. After the 2nd dropped, they figured it was true.

      From preparing to die in a land invasion to thinking the entire island could be destroyed in a few days without even seeing an American GI