Bobby. wrote on Aug 7
th, 2022 at 9:22pm:
freediver wrote on Aug 7
th, 2022 at 4:08pm:
Bobby. wrote on Aug 7
th, 2022 at 1:14pm:
freediver wrote on Aug 7
th, 2022 at 1:08pm:
Quote:Japan was cut off - not a drop of oil or bag of food could reach them -
so it was working.
How do you know?
The Jap navy was sunk.
They were making synthetic fuel out of trees to run a few aeroplanes they had left
for Kamikaze missions with pilots who had only a few hours of training.
It was pathetic.
It was enough that the Allies estimated it would cost the lives of 1.5 million soldiers to defeat them. Not exactly pathetic.
1.5 million?
Only if Japan was invaded.
Japan is an island nation that was devastated by war -
they would have had to eventually come to peace terms.
It was matter of 6 months to a year perhaps.
I think Truman nuked them more as a lesson for Stalin
in case he had ideas of overrunning western Europe.
You know nothing
The Soviets were ready to invade in 10 days after Manchuria - all the Japanese forces were in the South ready to fight the US troops but the Soviets were going to invade the North with was wide open.
During the Soviet-Japanese War in August 1945, the Soviet Union made plans to invade Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main Home Islands.
The invasion was cancelled on August 22, two days before their scheduled start, and Soviet forces concentrated on taking the Kuril Islands instead.
The Japanese surrendered to the Americans because they were afraid of the Soviets raping their women and the Japanese treasure their
DNA - there were Japanese in Berlin when Germany fell and knew millions of German women were raped and impregnated - they they could not tolerate - so for the survival of the Japanese people they surrendered to the USA
The Bombs shocked Stalin so he cancelled the invasion