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by timuckun 314 days ago
The problem is that the Americans saw no difference between soldiers committing atrocities and old people and children living in a city (fight aged men were out fighting).

They were targeting old people and children because it was easier to kill them than the soldiers.

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Sorry they didn’t invent HIMARS and satellite precision strikes yet.
The please explain why Kyoto was taken off the lists of targets?
Because the secretary of war spent his honeymoon there and didn't want to tarnish his memory.