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Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 11:26pm On Feb 27, 2016
86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi was just 16 years old when the bomb devastated his city.
Sumiteru's body still bears the scars of the horrific attack. Speaking to the Associated Press, he recalled how he was out on his job as a delivery boy when he was thrown from his bicycle by the blast. Stunned, he wandered in a daze for three days, unable to process the event or his injuries. He was conscious that he could feel fabric-like rags hanging from his back, he later found out that it was his flesh-ripped from his body and dangling from his shoulders. Sumeriteru's back was badly damaged, requiring him to lie on his stomach for 21 months in hospital. He was taken to a hospital, where he lay on his stomach for 21 months whilst the wounds on his arms and back were tended to.



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/nagasaki-hiroshima-70-anniversary-atom-bomb-survivor-show-effects-of-nuclear-10446573.html

Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by upsyLi(m): 11:27pm On Feb 27, 2016
Explorers:
Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (one of which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.
Had they known!
Oya where are the mods now?
Lalasticlala forgive Explorers if na to say he offend you, oga Seun come mediate for the matter na
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 11:36pm On Feb 27, 2016
Brighter than a thousand suns: Eyes that have seen a nuclear blast. That's what surviving victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These eyes have seen a nuclear blast and it’s been the last thing they’ve seen. After the image of that bright flash of light, there has been nothing. The girl lived in Hiroshima when war criminals threw an atomic bomb on the civiliansthere. The photo was taken in 1963 so the girl lived with her corneas burned for at least 18 years.

Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Funjosh(m): 12:01am On Feb 28, 2016
Explorers:
Yea, two cities were wiped out in Japan 4yrs laters, killing over 200,000. I've not seen that movie.
Silent don't tell me you haven't huh
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by buoye1(m): 2:32am On Feb 28, 2016
Informative
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by AyamConfidence(m): 3:00am On Feb 28, 2016
War has never benefitted anybody...just weapon manufactures and suppliers...some of the news are disturbing
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by AyamConfidence(m): 3:01am On Feb 28, 2016
Explorers:
Brighter than a thousand suns: Eyes that have seen a nuclear blast. That's what surviving victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These eyes have seen a nuclear blast and it’s been the last thing they’ve seen. After the image of that bright flash of light, there has been nothing. The girl lived in Hiroshima when war criminals threw an atomic bomb on the civiliansthere. The photo was taken in 1963 so the girl lived with her corneas burned for at least 18 years.
now this wasn't fair
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by AyamConfidence(m): 3:03am On Feb 28, 2016
Explorers:
86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi was just 16 years old when the bomb devastated his city.
Sumiteru's body still bears the scars of the horrific attack. Speaking to the Associated Press, he recalled how he was out on his job as a delivery boy when he was thrown from his bicycle by the blast. Stunned, he wandered in a daze for three days, unable to process the event or his injuries. He was conscious that he could feel fabric-like rags hanging from his back, he later found out that it was his flesh-ripped from his body and dangling from his shoulders. Sumeriteru's back was badly damaged, requiring him to lie on his stomach for 21 months in hospital. He was taken to a hospital, where he lay on his stomach for 21 months whilst the wounds on his arms and back were tended to.



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/nagasaki-hiroshima-70-anniversary-atom-bomb-survivor-show-effects-of-nuclear-10446573.html
holy zechariah...what is this? Chai...the evil that men do
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 4:50am On Feb 28, 2016
The completed bomb was then towed towards the airfield under cover with an escort.

Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 4:51am On Feb 28, 2016
The device is lowered in to the pit where two men work - it remained covered up for security reasons.

Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 4:53am On Feb 28, 2016
The aircraft used to carry the device backed up slowly over the pit to collect the bomb.

Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 4:55am On Feb 28, 2016

Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 5:03am On Feb 28, 2016
Hiroshima after the blast.

Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Nobody: 5:08am On Feb 28, 2016
The nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one poignant example of man's inhumanity to man..
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 5:15am On Feb 28, 2016
The crew of the American B29 bomber Enola Gay who dropped the 'Little Boy' bomb on Hiroshima.

Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by dominique(mod): 7:00am On Feb 28, 2016
whitecloth:
What's the tittle of the movie ?
Pearl Harbor, released about 13 years ago.
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by augster(m): 7:19am On Feb 28, 2016
dominique:
Pearl Harbor, released about 13 years ago.
watched it too... I don‘t like the way it ended
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Electronzeez(m): 8:44am On Feb 28, 2016
Explorers:
Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (one of which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.
Overlook an ant and you will be suprise it would kill you .
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by SkinnyDude(m): 6:04pm On Mar 02, 2016
dominique:
And America replied by bombing Hiroshima. Japan planned the attack to happen on a Sunday when the American soldiers were least prepared but the payback was brutal.

I still don't understand why the movie failed at the box office, it was a masterpiece. I watched it over five times and became a fan of Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale.
what's the name of the movie
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Explorers(op): 8:52pm On Mar 02, 2016
SkinnyDude:
what's the name of the movie
Pearl Harbor.
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by AwesomeDuru(m): 5:14am On Mar 03, 2016
Explorers:
Pearl Harbor.
Why don't they always put your topics on frontpage?
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Nobody: 6:16am On Mar 03, 2016
Explorers:
The crew of the American B29 bomber Enola Gay who dropped the 'Little Boy' bomb on Hiroshima.
Pls, what actually caused the war.

mehn, america is heartless
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Nobody: 6:25am On Mar 03, 2016
Explorers:
The crew of the American B29 bomber Enola Gay who dropped the 'Little Boy' bomb on Hiroshima.
LOL, did a little research and figured out DAT the Japanese actually went to wake the sleeping giant grin

menh, war no good oo
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by oluaseunhashy(m): 8:21am On Mar 03, 2016
Eleyi gidi gaan o!
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by MosquitoLaps(m): 11:58am On Mar 03, 2016
Explorers:
Brighter than a thousand suns: Eyes that have seen a nuclear blast. That's what surviving victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These eyes have seen a nuclear blast and it’s been the last thing they’ve seen. After the image of that bright flash of light, there has been nothing. The girl lived in Hiroshima when war criminals threw an atomic bomb on the civiliansthere. The photo was taken in 1963 so the girl lived with her corneas burned for at least 18 years.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum.
whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral
failure of those who evade the fact that there can be
no compromise on basic principles.
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by upsyLi(m): 1:20pm On Mar 03, 2016
AwesomeDuru:
Why don't they always put your topics on frontpage?
I wonder oooo
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Nobody: 1:48pm On Mar 03, 2016
AwesomeDuru:
Why don't they always put your topics on frontpage?
Because most of his topics are always promoting the lies & propaganda of the Anglozionist Empire. grin

By all international & interplanetary laws, use of Nuclear Weapons against innocent civilians is a grave war crime.
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by pamcode(m): 3:16pm On Mar 03, 2016
herald9:
War! I hate wars!

I used to be a fan of war movies until I watched Black Hawk Down now I cringe at any scene of war.

X
BLACK HAWK Down isnt really that graphic now tho there were parts that were emotional. Nice film tho still have it
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Djbaka(m): 4:01pm On Mar 03, 2016
pamcode:
BLACK HAWK Down isnt really that graphic now tho there were parts that were emotional. Nice film tho still have it
Not really about graphics; story, plots, effects, etc. Lone Survivor was a close one though, but I still give it to Black hawk down.
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Nobody: 4:05pm On Mar 03, 2016
Djbaka:
Not really about graphics; story, plots, effects, etc. Lone Survivor was a close one though, but I still give it to Black hawk down.
I think you need to watch “Saving Private Ryan”.
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by Djbaka(m): 4:40pm On Mar 03, 2016
Zoharariel:
I think you need to watch “Saving Private Ryan”.
Maybe I need to. I'd just add it to my dd/l queue then.
Re: History: Attack On Pearl Harbour, U.S. VS Hiroshima And Nagasaki 1945. by kcowen(m): 7:33pm On Mar 04, 2016
Zoharariel:
No! It wasn't a surprise military strike. It a was deliberate attack planned by Amerika just like they told Saddam Hussein “we have no position regarding Arab vs Arab conflict” when Saddam told them he was considering taking military action against kuwait to drive them out of the Rumalia oilfield.

Glaspie & John Kelley(Assistant Secretary of State) were both lying and giving Saddam the green light to attack Kuwait.

Read:

It wasn’t the first time a US President allowed bloodshed to provide a pretext for economically beneficial war, nor would it be the last. Bush’s “no response” to Saddam was reminiscent of the actions of FDR which led to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and US entry into WWII.

A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83% of Americans were against US involvement in the war (WW2).

The London banker crowd wanted US intervention to help cement the US/Britain “special relationship”, which serves as the neo-colonial paradigm of the day. FDR was himself a Wall Street insider. He only launched his populist New Deal to put a lid on revolutionary public anger caused by the Crash of 1929.

His uncle Frederic Delano was a member of the first Federal Reserve Board.

The 33rd Degree Mason and CFR insider needed a pretext to provide US troops for the defense of European monarchs, to which every Mason pledges his allegiance, wittingly or not.

CFR started the ball rolling by encouraging FDR to send aid to China and to squeeze Japanese trade via naval blockades.

FDR ordered the Pacific Fleet moved to vulnerable Pearl Harbor despite numerous intelligence reports of looming Japanese aggression and over the objections of Admiral James Richardson.

In 1932 and 1938 the Navy conducted exercises in the presence of Japanese military attachés, simulating the destruction of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disappeared from radar after seen sailing towards the US.

US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall sent an ambiguous message to Pearl Harbor military commanders on November 27, 1941 that read,

“Hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot be avoided the US desires that Japan commit the first overt act.” [8]

Warnings came from,

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

US Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew

Brigadier General Elliot Thorpe in Java

British and Dutch intelligence

On December 6th, US intelligence told Roosevelt that the Japanese carriers were 400 miles from Hawaii.

Still, Roosevelt left most of the Pacific Fleet in port. On the night of December 6th, George Marshall and Navy Secretary Frank Knox huddled at the White House with FDR.

Both later testified that they “did not recall their whereabouts”.

While battleships and destroyers remained at Pearl Harbor, the more strategic aircraft carriers were moved. Not one was in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. FDR knew air power was the key to defeating Japan. The “surprise” Japanese attack went forward and 2,400 Americans paid for the FDR deception with their lives. Another 1,200 were injured.

The next day FDR addressed the nation and called for a declaration of war. Pearl Harbor ended US isolationism once and for all.

FDR stated his position in a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation with British Prime Minister and fellow 33rd Degree Freemason Winston Churchill, stating,

“A Japanese attack on us, which would result in war… would certainly fulfill two of the most important requirements of our policy… What I don’t know, can’t hurt me”. [9]

As Professor Stuart Crane put it,

“If you look back at every war in Europe you will see that they always ended up with the establishment of a balance of power. With every reshuffling there was a balance of power in a new grouping around the House of Rothschild in England, France or Austria.

Conclusion: Everything Amerika stands for is LIES, CHAOS, ANARCHY & BETRAYAL.
So true...Heard & Read it was a deliberate attack & planned attack by the American to test their Nuclear Warhead,also that the America intelligencey intercepted code some days ago before the attack....that movie pearl Harbour was one of the reason I fell in love with Ben Affleck,the movie was so real & touching
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