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Show ROB RT HL TER R4,2 2 anticipati n w 11 th y ord red up front like 600,000 Purpl H art t b pr p r d. h Y anticipated an invasion that would be island by island and w uld go on for ab uta y ar. An island then the next island about three months later so one after another. Thi wa the planning of our planners who I think are reasonably realistic. One thing that really stands out is earlier we anticipated that the fight with Japan would be so bloody and so horrible it had to be ended somehow. And we set up in Vigo, Indiana, earlier-this was in, say, 1944-a factory for producing anthrax to use to finally end the war with Japan. It was in production. It was making a thousand or so anthrax bomblets, or whatever, a week, storing it up to finally be able to finish Japan. So that is how our military leaders were thinking about what would have to happen. Anyway, that's all hindsight. After Hiroshima I wondered why there would have to be another one. After Hiroshima and the war was over, these scientists set up the Los Alamos University, they called it, for Gis not yet discharged. They offered courses. So I took a course in physics and a course in differential equations. So that went on. In the fall and the winter came, the water supply to Los Alamos froze up. This they would blame on General Groves. They said he looked at it, when they were setting it up, he looked at where it was, how far south it was, and he looks at some table and sees it never freezes that far south, like Alabama, or not for long, so they laid out a water pipe, about ten miles or so, above ground. So they got away with it for several winters, but that winter (1945-46) it froze. There was no water. We had to use cans of tomato juice to flush the toilets. The civilians all left. That was a big blow. That's not well advertised, actually, but all the civilians left. Then, they began to bring water in tanker trucks. So that would be November 1945. Then, nothing much went on. I forget what I was doing. I was studying, hoping to get out soon, and thinking about where 30 |
