[gusty]

Then why did the Japanese air force put up no resistance to our massive bombing campaign with conventional and atomic bombs at this time in 1945. They might have been out of planes by 1946, when the invasion would have occurred, without any way of producing new ones. If Japan did continue the war, the Red Army's sealift would have been the US Navy. Can you imagine the uproar, after massive US casualties, against Harry Truman if he refused to use the Red Army in the invasion of Japan. He might have been impeached. Our losses were predicted to be Stalingrad like. You have to admire the intestinal fortitude of the people on all sides back then. What today is reported as major military losses would not have gotten a paragraph in the newspaper in 1944.

[tophat9000]

If Japan did continue the war, the Red Army's sealift would have been the US Navy

So you accept the simple fact the Red Army's was going nowhere near Japan unless the US gave then the ride?...

So the US in 1945 OWNED Japan with the only force to be able access to Japan and therefore the US controlled Japan's fate? and the US could do as it willed with Japan? (and with the A bomb to do it will)....so you think Japan didn' know this?

[Rebelbase]

“Then why did the Japanese air force put up no resistance to our massive bombing campaign with conventional and atomic bombs at this time in 1945.”

The Japs were holding their remaining capital for the invasion.