aircraft. The Japanese lose 27 planes and five midget submarines which attempted to penetrate the inner harbor and launch torpedoes. Escaping damage from the attack are the prime targets, the three U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers, Lexington, Enterprise and Saratoga, which were not in the port. Also escaping damage are the base fuel tanks. The casualty list includes 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians killed, with 1,178 wounded. Included are 1,104 men aboard the Battleship USS Arizona killed after a 1,760-pound air bomb penetrated into the forward magazine causing catastrophic explosions.” Immediately after America went to war. “Well they shouldn’t have started it!”
If we didn’t drop the atomic bomb thousands of American soldiers would have died. That would have been tens of thousands of children without a parents and wives without husbands. We had a plan, an original plan if the bomb didn’t work out. “The Americans were planning Operation Downfall, the invasion of the main islands, which never happened due to the controversial decision to use the atomic bomb.” they only took over one island which was Okinawa. In the end Americans won but, “According to published figures, a total of 12,513 American troops lost their lives in the battle for Okinawa. There were