I don't think that you are looking at the picture in the same light as the planners were.
Yes, Omaha beach was bad. But lets look at more realistic numbers that planners from the invasion were looking at: In 2 months 38,000 Americans wounded, 12,000 killed or missing, more than 107,000 enemy killed, and perhaps 100,000 civilians perished, in the invasion of a tiny little island called Okinawa. ( That is more causalities than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined - an estimated 103,000 ) Over 26,000 Allied causalities and over 21,800 Japanese causalities for an island less than 8 sq miles in size, in little over 1 month. The name of that island - Iwo Jima. It was with these casualty numbers, that the planners were figuring 1,000,000 from the off shore bombardment to the final surrender. Greg H. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 14:30 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The myths of Hiroshima > look, this whole thing about an invasion of japan costing a million american > lives is utterly ridiculous. that would be four times the american combat > deaths in the entire war. the landing at omaha beach is usually described as one > of the most horrifically deadly battlefield environments of the conflict, > because of the difficult terrain and the very dense defenses. roughly a thousand > american soldiers were killed, just shy of 3% of the forces that landed there > which is pretty high. if you were to assume similarly difficult conditions > for an invasioin of japan (which is by no means a given), more than 30 million > troops would have to be involved. . . . > > -chris b. > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
