On July 6th 1945 the 87th Infantry Division returned to the US and was preparing to train for the Invasion of Japan. We had European combat experience including the “Battle of the Bulge”. Plans for the Invasion called for a November landing near the Capital. Estimates of casualties were near a million. Japanese casualties would have been as high. I figure our “Home Front ” would not have put up with these figures and the “little boy” would have been used anyway. Not knowing anything about the radiation effects could have caused additional casualties to our troops. I was a member of the 87th. and owe my life to the decision to drop the bomb. While I symphacize with the Japanese in this case it was the Japanese who attacked us. The bomb was a warning to all “not to tread ” on the US.
