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Originally Posted by Shikan
Truman himself received an estimate from his military officials saying that a homeland invasion would cost significantly less casualties than what everyone has been saying since. Official documentation of these estimates are no longer top secret. You can see them for yourself if you look.
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That's because the several series of
successful firebombing already weakened the Home Island Defense system long time ago.
People still believe that there will be a huge causalities of American soldiers when they invade mainland Japan? My goodness.
Also, lot of people don't know that there was a significantly inefficient administration of the military-led government on the Japanese side right after the Battle of Midway.
Sorry to say, not many people know what in the world was going on in the Japanese military circle vis-a-vis American military-political complex at that time.