I think we saved thousands and thousands of lives.' - Vince Ortman. We would have had to kill off all the Japanese, and there would have been a lot of Americans killed in the meantime. The Japanese were never going to give up unless we had something like that. 'I thought at the time and I still do, that we saved an awful lot of lives.
(Germany, of course, had surrendered months earlier.) Nebraskans celebrated V-J Day wholeheartedly on August 15. Notice a space has been left for the name of the city. Excerpt from announcing the dropping of the atomic bomb.
