Ahh ! It's that time of the day when us european residents come on line.

Les - Nice one, to use that hackned phrase, "If we don't remember and learn from history we are doome to repeat it"

A point to ponder, did the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, horrible though they were, save more loss of life in the long run ? What ever the arguments pro and con on the willingness of the Japanese Government to surrender the can be little doubt that this provided the opportunity to do so.

My late father, who had fought from Normandy to Keil, was not overpleased with the news that the battalion was to requip, and was earmarked for the far east in May 1945.

Do any Military Historians have any access to the expected casualties expected on the Rangoon and Japanese Home Island landings ?

Gareth