Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Why the kamikaze campaign failed" video.

It's a lucky thing that Japan surrendered the day it did: when I moved to Japan in 1972 I found the bars of Yotsuya, Marunouchi, Kabuto-cho and elsewhere full of men who had been scheduled to fly their kamikaze mission the very next day.
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Very a propos. I think part of our fascination with the suicide pilots is a desperate effort to blind ourselves to the fact that almost all methods of attack are suicidal. The reason Rommel lost the battles of Alamein is he had only a pitiful few dozen tanks left out of the thousands he had brought with him to Africa.
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Hunh? And here I thought the point of atom bombs was that you could destroy a city while only risking a single plane's crew. Silly me. Furtunately you confirm for us all, the value of the olde rule that anything beginning with the word "actually" is certain to be true.
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It was a side-show. "World" War Two took place in Poland, Ukraine, and Manchuria. The deaths were mostly Chinese and Soviet civilians, the military deaths mainly Russian.
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@medievalcatguy6776 Without the entire Commonwealth paying for American "lend-lease," the Depression would have carried on regardless in the USA.
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@thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529 China fought Japan from 1931 onward, India and Indo-China from 1937. America fought only after it was forced to.
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