The Destruction of Cities

Darrell Castle talks about the 75th anniversary of the end of the war with Japan along with the current destruction of American cities. Transcription/Notes: THE DESTRUCTION OF CITIES Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is the 21st day of August in the year 2020 and here in the Castle family we are doing just fine except that the family daughter has had her hopes for an escape from her jungle island dashed again by a few cases of virus in New Zealand so flights have once again been cancelled. So, we talk to her on zoom, we wait, and we pray for her and her husband as they endure their 6th month of captivity. Now here is a bit of information you might not be aware of. The destruction of the cities of the world  has not always been the result of Democrat politicians although, by a strange coincidence, the two we are going to remember today were destroyed under a Democrat politician. This month of August 2020 is one of such historic importance that I must take you back 75 years into history to talk about it. Why do I remind you of World War Two anniversaries and talk about that event in history so much? Because the men who fought there should not be forgotten, and because it was the last time in our country’s history that we were completely united as a people against a common enemy. This month is the 75th anniversary of many things having to do with World War II and specifically with the war against Japan. It is the 75th anniversary of the peace treaty that ended the war with Japan. It is the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan, and it is the 75th anniversary of the death of the last American killed in World War II. His name was Anthony Marchione and he had just celebrated his 21st birthday. The date was August 18, 1945, two days after President Truman had ordered all American forces to cease offensive operations against Japan. The United States had a new bomber called the B-32 Dominator, which was not even used during the war, but was then being used for photo reconnaissance to make sure that Japan was complying with the cease fire agreement. The bomber was to take off from the southern tip of Okinawa and fly to Japan to photograph a Japanese airfield north of Tokyo. Tony Marchione was not a member of the regular crew but was assigned as a photographer and assistant gunner on the flight. There were a lot of Japanese military who would not accept the Emperor’s statement to the Japanese people that he had accepted the Allied terms of unconditional surrender. He explained to them in his national broadcast that the Americans had a new and most cruel bomb of such devastating power that further resistance was futile.  Ordinary Japanese viewed the Emperor as a god and when he spoke that was the law, so they accepted his decision, but much of the remaining military refused and committed mutiny rather than lay down their arms. In the meantime, as Tony Marchione’s bomber reached its assigned area and began to take pictures it was attacked by four rogue Japanese fighter aircraft flown by mutinous aviators and Tony was hit at his gun turret. He bled to death in the sky while attempting to make it back to his base. Tony Marchione was the last of almost half a million American combat deaths in World War II. That was 75 years ago August 18, 1945 so he would be 96 years old if he were still alive today. A few days before that on the 6th of August 1945 a B-29 named the Enola Gay took off from its island base at Tinian headed for the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Enola Gay dropped a 5000-pound atomic weapon named Little Boy which exploded over Hiroshima with a force equivalent to 15000 tons of TNT. Eighty thousand people died instantly with 10’s of thousands more dying of radiation over the following few days. Three days later Emperor Hirohito and his generals still scratched their heads like Hamlet, so another bomb named fat boy was used against Nagasaki with similar results.