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I think the concern was that Japan would evacuate and relocate American POWs to the sites. America wanted innocent lives to be saved, but could not kill Americans.. I think. We had been bombing the Japanese for a long time. And it wasn't like they gave us warning before bombing Pearl Harbor.

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