[JMN]

Fighter pilots make headlines.

Bomber pilots make history.

Especially in Dresden, Warsaw or Hiroshima

[Aardwolf]

Ares rocks, because it can mount 2x Maxim and 4x Kayser. So you can shred fighters, and unlike in the Erinyes you can sustain Maxim-fire indefinitely by shunting all power to weapons.

Also, why does nobody remember Nagasaki, yet everyone knows Hiroshima?

[SpardaSon21]

Because Hiroshima happened first.

[Thaeris]

I know of both.

And for that matter, why does no one remember "Bock's Car," but everyone knows of the "Enola Gay"?

To their defense, knowledge of these things are rather dark, though...

[Herra Tohtori]

Also, why does nobody remember Nagasaki, yet everyone knows Hiroshima?

I remember them both...

I also remember the firebombings of Tokyo and to lesser degree Dresden.

[High Max]

You can't remember because you weren't alive when it happened. You just remember learning about it

[Herra Tohtori]

My memory transcends time and space.

If only it would do so on command rather than more or less randomly...

[Dilmah G]

Also, why does nobody remember Nagasaki, yet everyone knows Hiroshima?

Who doesn't know about Nagasaki?

[Scotty]

People who don't know about the March 3-4 (might have the dates wrong by a week or two) firebombing of Tokyo that actually killed more people than both A-bombs combined.

[High Max]

My memory transcends time and space.

If only it would do so on command rather than more or less randomly...

Yes, we all could have been reincarnated multiple times and somehow you could remember while most of us can't. In your past life, maybe you were a victim of that horrible bombing, which was a terrorist attack on the grandest scale. Who knows?

[Scotty]

 

He was being humorous.

I'm interceptor/tactical.  I like speed, I like good weapons, and I like living on the razor's edge.  Any time there's a Valk, Perseus or Horus nearby, I'll take it.

Though I'm not an interceptor in multiplayer.  There it's heavy assault and space superiority.

Out of curiosity, which assault/space superiority fighter do you prefer?

[Dilmah G]

My memory transcends time and space.

If only it would do so on command rather than more or less randomly...

Yes, we all could have been reincarnated multiple times and somehow you could remember while most of us can't. In your past life, maybe you were a victim of that horrible bombing, which was a terrorist attack on the grandest scale. Who knows?

High Max, do you know what humour is?

[High Max]

He was being humorous.

I know, but you still never know about the reincarnation bit. Maybe I was also being humorous to a certain extent. You all think you can read my mind and know what I am thinking or know whether or not I'm smiling behind my desk?

[Pred the Penguin]

You guys need to learn to express emotion over internet. XD

[Scotty]

Maybe I was also being humorous to a certain extent.

You guys need to learn to express emotion over internet.

[Dr. Pwnguin]

People who don't know about the March 3-4 (might have the dates wrong by a week or two) firebombing of Tokyo that actually killed more people than both A-bombs combined.

Sure they do, the textbooks just rephrase it as the "Doolittle Raid".

[Scotty]

Those are so different, it's not even funny.

The Doolittle Raid took place in April 1942 as a "just to show we can" raid and let the Japanese know we wouldn't just roll over.  It killed a grand total of 60 people on all sides, and wounded 400 more.

The firebombings of Tokyo took place on the night of March 9-10 (I was off by a week), and killed at least 83,000 people, and some figures go as high as 100,000.  Total casualties (not just fatalities) go as high as 500,000 people.  The total death toll of Hiroshima on the day of the bombing was 66,000.  The casualties for both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined never climbed past 300,000.

[ChronoReverse]

And if they had proceeded with the full scale invasion as originally intended, who knows what might have happened.

But let's go back to occupations.  I think I'd like to be Command as well.  He doesn't ever seem to be in the line of fire.

[Scotty]

And if they had proceeded with the full scale invasion as originally intended, who knows what might have happened.

Projected 40,000 American dead, 500,000 total casualties.  Inclusive of both intial invasion and conquest of the Kyushu plain.  Japanese casualties would have approached the millions.

I did my term paper on this subject.

[High Max]

And if they had proceeded with the full scale invasion as originally intended, who knows what might have happened.

Projected 40,000 American dead

That's small potatoes compared to the number that the usa has killed in multiple wars, or even 1 small war that usa was involved in. Also, it's stupid that they call 911 a big attack when it was so small that it isn't even funny when compared to what the usa has done to Japan, VN, and to countries in the Middle East in the so called War on Terror when terrorism is as old as war itself. usa had it easy but takes it for granted. Do most Americans even realize that none of these ideas are new? Do many watch the History Channel? Do many realize that 911 was small (only 2 buildings and 3000 dead)? 911 was nothing if you look at all the others stuff that has occurred. It's also extremely small potatoes compared to the Haiti disaster. Off topic, I know.