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A resounding NO it was not wrong. They asked for a war. They got the war they wanted and we used all the means at our disposal to win. My Dad and Uncles were set to invade Japan. We dropped the bombs and they surrendered. End of story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
Operation Downfall - Wikipedia
A map outlining the Japanese and U.S. (but not other Allied) ground forces scheduled to take part in the battle for Japan. Two landings were planned:
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
LTC Orlando Illi One of my Grand Fathers was an Army doctor in the Pacific in WWII, I for one agree with you wholeheartedly. It saved American lives, but it saved Japanese lives as well. Taking U.S. casualties out of the equation, how bad would the population of Japan have been decimated by an invasion? How many civilians would have become collateral damage. In the video it mentions that Truman thought it would be Okinawa end to end. Okinawa did not have the population density that the home islands had. The pre-invasion naval bombardment would have cost a large number of civilian casualties before the first pair of American boots hit the beaches. No, Truman was right to end the war decisively.
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