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To: JCBreckenridge
"If Okinawa was difficult, than Japan would be even harder. "

But Germany was going to be a cake-walk? Your reasoning seems to be based very much after-the-fact.

135 posted on 08/10/2013 10:05:39 AM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: Flag_This

America did not expect Okinawa to be so difficult. You can read the contemporary opinions. It’s right there. Okinawa was a shock, and changed how the US saw the war. Again - it’s not difficult to understand.

Okinawa was difficult, US realizes that an invasion of Japan would be even more difficult. US steps up atomic bomb research.. Trinity comes a month later. Bombs developed for us on Japan and used.


144 posted on 08/10/2013 12:27:52 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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