Purple Hearts and Japanese atomic bombing

Purple Hearts and Japanese atomic bombing

Every Purple Heart awarded by the U.S. military since 1945 is one of the 500,000 purple hearts manufactured in anticipation of U.S. casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan, but was prevented by dropping the Atomic Bomb.

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