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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 15, 1992                   TAG: 9201150363
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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MANY JAPANESE DEATHS AVERTED TOO

I APPLAUD Herbert Reininger's letter in your Dec. 30 issue. I would like to add that in addition to almost 2 million Allied casualties just in a landing on the Japanese mainland, there would have been larger numbers of Japanese casualties.

Professional America-bashers choose not to think about what would have happened if the atomic bombs had not been dropped.

I am retired. I was in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II, and after victory in Europe fully expected to be sent directly to the Pacific. Fortunately, victory over Japan came a lot sooner than expected. WALTER H. PFISTER GALAX

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