Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "The Battle of Iwo Jima | Animated History" video.

  1.  @bingobongo1615  The USA demanded unconditional surrender. It is not like if the Japanese had won they'd have given anyone anything. Defeat needs to be comprehensive and unequivocal. In the end we gave the Japanese a hollow concession concerning their Emperor. We retained the right to prosecute him if we saw fit. We ultimately did decide he was more valuable to us alive than dead. The Japanese were actually pretty shocked at how magmanamus we were in victory over them. Although there was that misunderstanding when we shipped them powdered milk rations. The Japanese were not into milk products. They considered it bodily waste. So it'd be like if they won and they shipped us urine to drink.
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  2. Not really. We killed 10 times as many of them as they got of us. What the Japanese did was not know when to quit.
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  3. @Jorzor z We could have just blockaded the islands and starved them all to death too. We opted not to because we decided that'd just take too long. But it was considered.
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  4. We wanted the island secured ASAP. It was supposed to be mopped up in 3 days. There was a war on and the brass had plans for that island.
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  5. He was a fool and his defence was futile. His entire country was comprehensively defeated like no other ever has been in human history. The Japanese never stood a chance. In fact it was the resistance the Japanese put up that made deciding to use nuclear weapons against them such an easy one.
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  6.  @janvisser4132  so what did defending it get him? His country still lost. What did all of those lives buy, a month? And a month of what? More of his countrymen starving to death? Woo woo big win there.
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  7. Iwo was used as an early warning station by the Japanese. Taking it from them blinded them to our air attacks.
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  8. the Japanese should have surrendered before Pearl Harbor. They never stood a chance against the USA. Yamamoto knew it.
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  9.  @crocs4304  you're OK with us dumping barrels of gasoline down their tunnel system and igniting it though, right? Because that's what we did.
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  10.  @crocs4304  I don't know if everyone burned. A lot probably suffocated to death too. You also have to wait as the tunnels fill up with fuel. A substantial amount of fuel was used to burn the Japanese out. Tens of thousands of tons of it. They'd roll barrels over holes and just empty the contents down in there. I mean we are talking about Americans here. If there's one thing we know how to do it's burn massive amounts of gas. Kill it with fire!
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  11. A yard is 85.8 mm shy of a meter. They're almost the same length. A meter is a tad longer. A mile is a lot longer than a kilometer is though.
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  12. U.S.: drops a Fat Man and a Little Boy on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Will Smith: That's hot.
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  13.  Magni56  he died like a stuck pig. He could have ordered all of his men to surrender to the Americans for all the good their sacrifice made. It was resistance on Okinawa that solidified American resolve to nuke Japan anyways.
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  14.  @andreasbonaparte8171  America defeats all!
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  15.  @andreasbonaparte8171  you know the Union won at Gettysburg, don't you? My grandfather was one of the men that personally kicked the Japanese out of the Aleutians too.
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  16.  @andreasbonaparte8171  the Confederates were defeated at Gettysburg. All they took was a beating.
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  17.  @squeaky206  must be why I said, "you know the Union won at Gettysburg, don't you?"
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  18. Those that fought earned glory for the ages. Who will speak of you in a thousand years?
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  19. We thought about it then we nuked them.
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  20. By the time Iwo Jima happened the Japanese navy had hardly any ships left and did not have fuel to send them anywhere. Asians behind the wheel are accidents waiting to happen though so their Kamikaze tactics proved effective. You gotta play to your strengths, you know?
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  21. Is no one going to talk about all of the Japanese looking like Charles Bronson?
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