Come back tomorrow, talk about something else you don’t understand.
Dont flatter yourself I wont remember you 5 atomseconds after I leave.
Honestly your comments are extremely strange, seems like you have a superiority complex. Go touch some grass and read some books you claim to have bud.
And maybe you should mind your own business.
Delete your comments if u dont like replies on public forum.
Or you can do this…
Probably to show the power they had, it was quite a powerful argument for a period when USA was the only one having such weapon.
Dropping “at the outskirts” wouldn’t had such political effect.
YEAHH!!! Take that Japan for messing with US!
But it was largely US forces that really fought Japan and pushed them back
Gotta test plutonium warheads somehow
They poured billions into the project. The repercussions for the ppl involved to never actually use it and have it be basically a money drain would be worse than if they used it like they did. Unfortunate, but not very surprising
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Why is the Soviet vs Allies war contribution nonsense here in the pacific event? Get somewhere else, not here. Stop talking about who contributes more to Europe, you all played too much HOI4.
This is absolutely outrageous, when the entire thread decided that China did not trap millions of Japanese menpower and participated heavily in CBI theaters, or rest of the western allies, namely the commonwealth, who commited more than four million troops.
Not even a brief mention of China, and the participation of the rest of the western allies were sidelined into a single word.
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On the islands mosyly yes but they were supported by the commonwealth navies, airforce and armies which had been fighting longer then the Americans in the region and China had been liberated mostly by commonwealth forces, especially the 2 million Indians. Americans tend to talk only about the island hopping campaigns.
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I’m pretty sure the US also send troops to many other places and fought a lot of naval and air battles, + I’m almost certain the US had the biggest air force and naval fleet (bar Japan at the start of the war) in the Pacific front
Here in the States it’s generally believed that USA did the majority of the fighting in Asia, and that D-Day got the war moving in the West (which it did, but I’d say the beginning of the end was the Battle of Kursk and Operation Husky, which were tactically coordinated to happen at the same time).
Brits initially wanted to invade up through Italy before D-Day, and America wanted to go through Normandy. Since the Gothic line pretty much didn’t fall until the very end of the war, I’d say the US was right about Normandy. I know that’s somewhat unrelated to the discussion at hand but it’s some interesting history to think about.
Britain were always planning to invade in france, Italy was a second location they wanted to engage before then because Russia was demanding more immediate western attacks in europe and churchill wanted it to be in italy where it was seen as a weak under belly and would be close enough to put pressure on Germany so they would be forced to split attention from the Russian front. it wasnt one over the other.
eventually yes i believe your navy and airforce where but not for the whole war and the Allies didnt leave once america turned up. As i said over 2 million Indian Raj were fighting in China supported directly by British, Australian and other commonwealth forces. The royal navy, royal Australian navy, the royal New Zealand navy, the Dutch etc were figting in the region before the americans joined in and still there when the war ended. Australians also took multiple islands and supported americans in others. Your history just never talks about it but ours does. neither USA or the commonwealth forces would have achieved what we did without one another.
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Indeed. The victory in Asia was a joint effort by all nations of the allied forces. History has no ifs and it will never have. This leads to a very simple conclusion: it is much ignorant to not include the UK and the commonwealth, China and even the Dutch forces onto such events. The commonwealth forces supported by the CEF played a vital part in delaying the Japanese forces, not to mention the CUF fighting in mainland forcing Japan to commit much of its invasion forces there, with catastrophic genocides - one even took place on 21st August, when the soviet forces prepare to occupy Dalian harbor aka port arthur, the last mass atrocity committed by Japan.
What was outrageous is that only the mandarin version made even the slightlist mention of China, which did not even get a word on other languages. This probably confirms the lack of a holiday event dedicated to the victory of CUF.
Celebrating the 1,000,000 or more people who didn’t die in a ground invasion.
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Tfw the purple hearts prepared are still being issued today. If there are no world war 3 it will probably almost never needs another batch.