Name for me a place where the Japanese didn't offer fanatical resistance. Guadalcanal? Tarawa? Saipan? Peleliu? Iwo Jima? If American war planners were "surprised" by Okinawa after those previous battles then they should have been freakin' fired - the Japanese had been using that island for artillery training for years and had just about every inch zeroed. Why would they have imagined Japan itself would be anything but a bloodbath?
Again, it's not difficult to understand - they started work in 1942 - they didn't use the bomb on Germany for the simple reason that they didn't have it ready before Germany folded.
Guadalcanal - 7k casulties.
Tarawa - 1.7k casulties
Saipan - 13.7k casulties
Peleliu - 9.7k casulties
Iwo Jima - 28k casulties
Okinawa - 84k casulties.
One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things just doesn’t belong.
Can you tell me which thing is not like the others.
Before I get to the end of my song?