Britain and America were prepared to use chemical weapons If the D-Day invasion and after were opposed by Germany using the same method.
Gas production was ramped up in the lead up to the invasion - part of Operation Bolero and stored at 5 FFDs (Forward Filling Depots) at various points around the UK. Certain RAF Stirling and Boston squadrons were trained to deliver the stuff if the need arose.
Chugalug2:
Your comment about the Japanese playing the victim card hits the nail squarely on the head. You see it every August and it doesn't help when you have a right wing revisionist government (LDP) whose leader wishes to change Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution (the Peace Clause) to allow Japan to move from a solely defensive force (SDF) to an offensive one. They have also been successful in having school text books revised to tone down the aggressive stance and atrocities committed in the name of the Emperor.
Dr Dre:
I totally agree with you having visited the Peace Museum at Hiroshima. Unless they have changed there stance there, there is no mention of the lead up to why American resorted to the atomic bomb.
It is the same on the battlefields of Okinawa, where the victim card is played out as Chugalug2 said above. You will hardly find any mention of why so many civilians died not from the American attacks but by other means there as well as on Saipan (Marpi Point suicides being the famous media one).
Yasukuni Shrine is dedicated to the Japanese who died in various wars in the service of Japan. It's problem to many is, it houses the 'souls' of over a thousand convicted war criminals including 14 Class A ones,who were secretly interned starting in the 50s. The attached museum (Yūshūkan) is as said, a nationalistic one and it is no surprise when various leaders and members of the government offer their ritual prayers there much to the ire of Japan's neighbours
There are Japanese historians who research and publish a more balanced view of what actually occurred, but they are in the minority.
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