In order of choice they are: Hiroshima, Kokura, and Niigata. July 23 In Potsdam, Secretary of War Henry Stimson receives atomic bomb target list.In China, the American Far East Air Force attacks Japanese troops, airfields, and shipping near Shanghai. Naval bombardments of the Japanese mainland continue, along with B-29 bombing raids striking Japanese cities. Navy sinks Japanese supply ships in the “Battle of Sagami Bay” (“Tokyo Bay”).
Read about Truman’s decision from the National Park Service Harry S.
In Potsdam, Truman and Churchill privately agree to use the atomic bomb if Japan does not surrender. THERE ARE NO CIVILIANS IN JAPAN.’” Richard B. July 21 “A senior US Army Air Force intelligence officer in the Pacific distributed a report declaring: ‘The entire population of Japan is a proper Military Target.