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Colonel · 08-18-2006, 03:42 PM

Actually, they tried. As best they could anyway. They had a plan to attach paper bombs to hot air balloons and then let the jet stream carry them to the US. They had two types. One was an explosive type bomb and the other was basically a paper bag filled with fleas carrying the bubonic (sp?) plague. Both methods were tested. In fact many years after the war a paper bomb was found in the US desert. It is believed that the Japanese actually attempted their plan. As for the second method, the Japanese tested this idea on a city in China and killed off the whole city by infecting them with the plague.

Or do you think that if they had actually won that our fate would have been any different than Nanking, China?

[quote:0b1dd]The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs tells the story in words and more than 400 photographs of the Japanese invasion of China and the sacking of its capital city, Nanking, in 1937-38.

Between December 1937 and March 1938 at least 369,366 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered by the invading troops. An estimated 80,000 women and girls were raped; many of them were then mutilated or murdered.

THE SAVAGERY OF THE KILLING WAS AS APPALLING AS ITS SCALE.

Thousands of victims were beheaded, burned, bayoneted, buried alive, or disemboweled.

To this day the Japanese government has refused to apologize for these and other World War II atrocities, and a significant sector of Japanese society denies that they took place at all.
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BTW - for comparison sake, the two bombs dropped on Japan killed about 214,000. That's just a little more than half the number butchered by the Japanese in one city alone.

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Colonel is Offline Master Sergeant Posts: 1,789 Join Date: May 2002 Location: Marietta, GA	08-18-2006, 03:42 PM Actually, they tried. As best they could anyway. They had a plan to attach paper bombs to hot air balloons and then let the jet stream carry them to the US. They had two types. One was an explosive type bomb and the other was basically a paper bag filled with fleas carrying the bubonic (sp?) plague. Both methods were tested. In fact many years after the war a paper bomb was found in the US desert. It is believed that the Japanese actually attempted their plan. As for the second method, the Japanese tested this idea on a city in China and killed off the whole city by infecting them with the plague. Or do you think that if they had actually won that our fate would have been any different than Nanking, China? [quote:0b1dd]The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs tells the story in words and more than 400 photographs of the Japanese invasion of China and the sacking of its capital city, Nanking, in 1937-38. Between December 1937 and March 1938 at least 369,366 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war were slaughtered by the invading troops. An estimated 80,000 women and girls were raped; many of them were then mutilated or murdered. THE SAVAGERY OF THE KILLING WAS AS APPALLING AS ITS SCALE. Thousands of victims were beheaded, burned, bayoneted, buried alive, or disemboweled. To this day the Japanese government has refused to apologize for these and other World War II atrocities, and a significant sector of Japanese society denies that they took place at all. [/quote:0b1dd] BTW - for comparison sake, the two bombs dropped on Japan killed about 214,000. That's just a little more than half the number butchered by the Japanese in one city alone.