Monday, May 20, 2024 10:40:51 PM
I can understand....you cannot believe the celebration when the abombs dropped o Heroíshma and Nagasaki -- you should have been there....that the celebration was because the apprehension about the necessity to invade Japan was uppermost in the minds of American troops, and their families, on their way from Europe to the Pacific theater of war, and about draft calls of 100K/month persisting after the defeat of Germany.
Japan’s Last Ditch Force
By John T. Correll
June 1, 2020
In the summer of 1945, the Japanese had almost seven million troops remaining and were not nearly ready to quit.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/japans-last-ditch-force/#:~:text=About%202%20million%20U.S.%20troops,dropped%20on%20Hiroshima%20and%20Nagasaki.
Surrender
Japan did not respond immediately to the atomic bombs at Hiroshima Aug. 6 and Nagasaki Aug. 9. The invasion was still on.
Marshall had his staff studying an alternative to using atomic bombs in direct support of the invasion force. At least seven more bombs would be available by the end of October. Manhattan Project officials advised Marshall that although lethal radiological effects would reach out 3,500 feet, the ground would be safe to walk on in an hour.
Conventional bombing and blockade would have eventually ended the war, but were not likely to have done so any time soon. Bombing by the B-29s would have resumed, and two nights on a par with the Tokyo attack on March 9 would have exceeded the death toll of both atomic bombs.
Meanwhile, Operation Olympic would have gone forward, against an enemy force three times as large as previously estimated. And that would have left the invasion of Honshu and Operation Coronet yet to come.
In the end, Japan would have been defeated, but the price in lives on both sides would have been terrible.
The Emperor, who had aligned himself with the peace faction, broadcast his rescript of surrender Aug. 15. There was a flurry of revolt within the army, but War Minister Gen Korechika Anami committed ritual suicide. He was opposed to surrender but would not challenge the Emperor. The formal instrument of surrender was signed Sept. 2 aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Various factors no doubt contributed to the outcome, but revisionist fantasies aside, the key events were the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan’s Last Ditch Force
By John T. Correll
June 1, 2020
In the summer of 1945, the Japanese had almost seven million troops remaining and were not nearly ready to quit.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/japans-last-ditch-force/#:~:text=About%202%20million%20U.S.%20troops,dropped%20on%20Hiroshima%20and%20Nagasaki.
Surrender
Japan did not respond immediately to the atomic bombs at Hiroshima Aug. 6 and Nagasaki Aug. 9. The invasion was still on.
Marshall had his staff studying an alternative to using atomic bombs in direct support of the invasion force. At least seven more bombs would be available by the end of October. Manhattan Project officials advised Marshall that although lethal radiological effects would reach out 3,500 feet, the ground would be safe to walk on in an hour.
Conventional bombing and blockade would have eventually ended the war, but were not likely to have done so any time soon. Bombing by the B-29s would have resumed, and two nights on a par with the Tokyo attack on March 9 would have exceeded the death toll of both atomic bombs.
Meanwhile, Operation Olympic would have gone forward, against an enemy force three times as large as previously estimated. And that would have left the invasion of Honshu and Operation Coronet yet to come.
In the end, Japan would have been defeated, but the price in lives on both sides would have been terrible.
The Emperor, who had aligned himself with the peace faction, broadcast his rescript of surrender Aug. 15. There was a flurry of revolt within the army, but War Minister Gen Korechika Anami committed ritual suicide. He was opposed to surrender but would not challenge the Emperor. The formal instrument of surrender was signed Sept. 2 aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Various factors no doubt contributed to the outcome, but revisionist fantasies aside, the key events were the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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