FDR and Churchill desperately needed an excuse to join in the action in Europe.
The vast majority of Americans, many of German descent, did not.
26,040 total casualties
(US) on Iwo Jima
Well sure I know that, pointed it out a lot myself. But what does that have to do with the alleged conspiracy between FDR and Japan?
The Japanese Imperial Navy provided FDR (the Day of Infamy shtick) a perfect excuse for entering the war in Europe through the back door, as historians point out.
Other than that, the activities of the Japanese Army in China were highly questionable, because they gave Mao a chance to regroup and eventually take over the entire mainland China.
The modern history of Japan needs to be re-written as a lapdog of the western (meaning Anglo-American) masters
I would suggest to all participants of this thread to read the Masterpiece book “Fly Boys” written by James Bradley the son of the misidentified flag raiser at Iwo Jima. The book is a roll a coaster of information. With respects to war brutality the book can be summed up in one old phrase; “The Pot Calling the Kettle Black”. Once you have started to read, you will find it real hard to put down.
That may be fine, and while it may have some value, real documents and reports contemporaneous to the war are preferred to books written from a soldiers perspective.
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He does that. All annotated with first hand soldier´s reports. Lots of documentary evidence and well known facts. A must read if you are serious about military history!
Soldiers on the ground are the last people to know the truths about the war they are fighting. Sad but true.
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He quotes General La May “If America had lost, I would be a war criminal” He uses first hand evidence in his book.
Ok, if he’s honest like that, it’s probably a useful book.
Germany had already attacked before Churchill was even elected.
This has been pointed out to you numerous times. The Brits were also committed by treaty to intervene if Poland or France were attacked.
Why do you feel the need to lie constantly?
“Total casualties”. As noted 6,800 dead compared to nearly 19,000 dead Japanese along with another 2,000 that could not be accounted for who were either blown to bits or buried in the collapsed tunnels.
You are officially counted as a “casualty” if you are treated at all by the medics or docs. Over 3/4 of our wounded return to duty.
When Churchill actually became Prime Minister is secondary to the presence of the powers in Britain who wanted a Christian bloodbath.
https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-War-David-Irving/dp/0380763141
The Japanese helped those powers by attacking Pearl Harbor. Iwo Jima contributed only to the prolongation of the war and increase of the Christian death tolls.
More fabricted BS.
Next week you’ll be back to claiming Hitler was a peacemaker and humanitarian and it was all Churchill’s fault again.
The reasons for Taking Iwo Jima were very real and they’ve all been laid out for you with documentation. As usual you just deflect with yet another wholly unsupportable BS conspiracy theory.
Iwo Jima was a prelude to what had been planned.
What exactly is that supposed to mean? The strategic planning for the defeat of Japan was laid out in 42/early 43 along two paths.
Path one ended with a land invasion of Japan.
Path two ended after nukes were to be used on a couple of major industrial and militarily important cities.
We didn’t know if we’d ever for sure develop a working nuke so both paths were followed.
Even after the first successful test, it wasn’t a sure thing that either Roosevelt or Truman would be willing to use an atomic bomb so again, both paths were followed.
Whichever path was to be followed Iwo was a necessary step for both because it was needed as a long range fighter base to escort the bombers to and from Japan.
Japan’s resources for combat were exhausted early 1945.
And yet the show (war) had to go on, until August, when A-bombs were finally ready for testing on live cities.
Iwo Jima and invasion of Okinawa had little strategic values, (and costly in terms of lives) but they were needed to give the pretense of continued war.
That’s the argument by Mullins, and he is correct in saying so.
That simply isn’t true period.
http://www.emersonkent.com/history/timelines/wwii_asia_pacific.htm
The Japanese continued to fight everywhere throughout the Pacific and on the Asian mainland right up until the surrender.
They had vowed and prepared to die to the last man woman and child in defense of the home Islands.
Invading the home Islands was going to result in the deaths of tens of millions of Japanese troops and civilians and as many as 2-3 million dead allied troops.
They still refused to surrender even after being completely driven back to the home Islands and even still refused until after the 2nd bomb was dropped.
Your “source” is nothing but an extreme far right wing Antisemitic hate monger, conspirasist, and fascist, holocaust denier and lover of Hitler and Mussolini.
The sum total of his life’s work was the promotion of the worst of humanity.
A much better book to read was written by General Leslie Groves who supervised the construction of the A Bomb…“Now It Can Be Told” is a masterpiece!