WW2 as seen from space....

[mrvette]

World War II From Space - YouTube

[Jeff '79]

With Google Chromecast, I'm watching this through my puter, on my TV, and surfing as normal.
I like it.

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

Not bloody likely.

[Olustee bus]

Thanks. I will watch it over a span of time.

[DukeAllen]

Originally Posted by Olustee bus

Thanks. I will watch it over a span of time.

That's what it usually takes.

[Sea Six]

Very cool show. I'm about fifteen minutes into it so far.

[C5SilverBullet]

It was a good watch.

[Fastguy]

I just finished watching the whole thing. Pretty informative overview of the war start to finish. The numbers of casualties is mind numbing, 76,000 US casualties in one battle,the taking of Okinawa.
Over 25,000,000 Russian deaths throughout the war. Twenty five million. Just unbelievable.

[Fasglas]

Watched 100%.

Seemed to overly-emphasize civilian casualties, especially the Japanese. I have long felt that Truman realized that a standard invasion of Japan would take YEARS, if not DECADES, to reach completion, he had no choice but to use the new weapons.

These weapons, BTW, were close to completion by Germany. Imagine the outcome had they gotten them first? Moscow, London, Washington and New York, just for a start.

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Fasglas

Watched 100%.

Seemed to overly-emphasize civilian casualties, especially the Japanese. I have long felt that Truman realized that a standard invasion of Japan would take YEARS, if not DECADES, to reach completion, he had no choice but to use the new weapons.

These weapons, BTW, were close to completion by Germany. Imagine the outcome had they gotten them first? Moscow, London, Washington and New York, just for a start.

Well, in the case of Wash DC it maybe not SO bad, jest sayin'.....

[Fastguy]

Originally Posted by Fasglas

Watched 100%.

Seemed to overly-emphasize civilian casualties, especially the Japanese. I have long felt that Truman realized that a standard invasion of Japan would take YEARS, if not DECADES, to reach completion, he had no choice but to use the new weapons.

These weapons, BTW, were close to completion by Germany. Imagine the outcome had they gotten them first? Moscow, London, Washington and New York, just for a start.

I didn't get that feeling, especially when you consider the B-29 firebombing of Tokyo, which had little military value. You couldn't really talk about the impact if you didn't include civilian casualties. In Okinawa, you had 150,000 civilian casualties, sort of hard to mention US military casualties without mentioning civilian.

[ApexOversteer]

Originally Posted by Jeff '79

With Google Chromecast, I'm watching this through my puter, on my TV, and surfing as normal.
I like it.

With just an HDMI Cable, I'm doing the same thing.

[BigJoe]

One thing I didn't realize is the fire bombing of Tokyo led to more deaths than either of the A-bombs (If you don't count deaths after the attack from radiation etc. which the fire bombing statistics may have included.) Yet you hardly ever hear any complaints about using fire bombing vs using A-bombs.

Other than that there wasn't a lot new here. An interesting presentation of a complex subject though.

[Fastguy]

If things had gone the other way, the firebombing of Tokyo could have been considered a war crime.

[63C2splitter]

I watched it last night. It was very interesting......once I started watching, I couldn't turn it off. (I had planned to watch in multiple sittings).

[onedef92]

These weapons, BTW, were close to completion by Germany. Imagine the outcome had they gotten them first? Moscow, London, Washington and New York, just for a start.

Indeed. One tiny country (about the size of Pennsylvania) almost conquered the world.

[mrvette]

OUT of that 25 Million Russians/related killed, I wonder how many from starvation, or worse yet shot for not leaving their mule to go fight??

lenin/stalin impressed everyone they could into the army, if not for our support, they may have lost the war....

SO I wonder about the circumstances and just how in hell anyone get enough food to stay alive during that BS.....