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Pilot Who Dropped the A-Bomb
Didn’t Know Japan Wanted To Surrender
John F. McManus
JBS
Monday November 5, 2007
Paul Tibbets piloted the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Unbeknownst to him
and the American people at the time was the fact that the Japanese
had already tried to surrender.
Follow this link to the original source: "Paul
Tibbets, pilot who bombed Hiroshima, dies at 92"
The Chicago Tribune’s Walter Trohan was arguably America’s
most respected journalist sixty years ago. In a front-page article
published by his newspaper on August 19, 1945, Trohan told of
having access to a January 1945 peace offering from Japan. He
explained that he and his newspaper could not publish what they
knew at the time because they were cooperating with a censorship
code requiring silence about military matters during wartime.
Once the war finally ended on August 15, 1945, Trohan related
that, in January, President Roosevelt "received a Japanese
offer identical with the terms subsequently concluded by his successor,
President Truman." But FDR, who passed away in mid-April,
did nothing and a few days later went to Yalta to meet with Churchill
and Stalin.
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Had the Japanese offer been accepted when presented in January,
there would have been no enormously costly battles at Iwo Jima
and Okinawa, no firebombing of Japanese cities by our air force,
and no dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The
war would have ended in the Pacific before all of those events
took place, and its end would likely have speeded Germany’s
surrender that didn’t come until several months later.
Colonel Paul Tibbets and his crew couldn’t have known about
Japan’s January offer when they unleashed the horrible weapon
on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Nor could Major Charles Sweeney
and his B-29 crew have known about it when they dropped a second
bomb on Nagasaki a few days later. The twin attacks cost the lives
of hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians. The attitude held
by most at the time insisted that the attacks were necessary to
avoid the need for an invasion of mainland Japan and the loss
of perhaps millions more. But that attitude was incorrect, though
very few at the time knew that it was.
In her 1956 book The Enemy at His Back, journalist Elizabeth
Churchill Brown supplied convincing commentary about the close
of the war. One of many whose research confirmed the revelation
supplied by Walter Trohan about the early Japanese desire to surrender,
she wrote: "I quickly began to see why the war with Japan
was unprecedented in all history. Here was an enemy who had been
trying to surrender for almost a year before the conflict ended."
Why Japan’s offer was not accepted can only be a matter
for speculation. But, in an article written by this author and
published in The New American magazine in August 1995 (the 50th
anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan), I suggested that
the threat of nuclear terror made obvious by the bombings "has
been used effectively to propel mankind – especially the
United States – to the brink of world government."
The real winners of the war were the enemies of national sovereignty
who were also promoters of the United Nations. Once the bombs
were dropped, it became fashionable for internationalists everywhere
to claim that nations can no longer be truly independent and peoples
can no longer expect to exercise God-given freedoms. In his 1967
book Utopia: The Perennial Heresy, Professor Thomas Molnar agreed
with our assessment when he wrote: "Political leaders, fearful
of the final cataclysm of nuclear annihilation, say that men must
huddle together under a world government…." This argument
can still be heard today.
The combination of assuring that the bloody war in the Pacific
would continue for seven more months, and the decision, made at
the top levels of our government, to use frightfully horrific
nuclear weapons on non-combatant Japanese, has to be considered
one of the most horrible crimes in all history.
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