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Old 2nd Nov 2007, 11:55
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Originally Posted by Chugalug2
Faced with such a cruel and obdurate enemy
The world was a different place.

I read contemporary accounts of Japanese prisoner handling. My father was in Nagasaki in 1945 after the war. He thought the effects were amazing and the results wonderful.

Stalks of corn embedded in tree trunks. Glass bottles crushed but not broken. Shadows of people burnt onto the ground.
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