Beachcomber,I'd read that the German's weren't really all that close to the Bomb since their premiere physicist (Heisenberg) had declared it an impossibility. (He either deliberaly miscalculated the quantity of Plutonium needed or made a mistake in the calculation, so the stories go). I've never seen anything about Japan even working on one.
My father was in the India Burma campaign. Growing up, wherever one of us kids started to cry, he'd get very upset and have to leave.Later he told me it was because of what he'd seen in the war. Villages filled with crying children because the Japanese had killed all the men and women. Supposedly as a way of slowing down the Allies.
Pete M,
MacArthur probably deserves more credit for what he did as Military Governor of Japan than for anything in his military career. (Though he didn't think so). He was responsible for bringing Deming to Japan to implement his SQC management ideas. Interesting anecdote (and maybe even true) was that Deming's ideas were all theory and no one in this country had ever implemented them.
And back on subject, didn't Churchill argue against mounting the guns so they permanatly faced seaward?
Regards
John