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To: Retain Mike

What were the alternatives? A negotiated settlement with Japan? I guess a few (one?) of the more naive Japanese strategists entertained that fantasy, but that was never considered by the American side for a nanosecond. An invasion on the Japanese mainland would have killed hundreds of thousands of American military and, almost certainly, many more Japanese than were killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was right.


8 posted on 07/17/2020 11:33:26 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: luvbach1

IIRC, Tojo was hatching a plan to kill Hirohito and blame it on the Americans, which most likely would have kept the war going.


13 posted on 07/17/2020 11:36:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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