[Maine Mariner]

The author brings up a a very good point; suppose we did not use nuclear weapons and the war went on for another year.
How many people living the hundreds of slave labor camps would have died? I am sure it would have been hundreds of thousands.

[daniel1212]

The author brings up a a very good point; suppose we did not use nuclear weapons and the war went on for another year. How many people living the hundreds of slave labor camps would have died? I am sure it would have been hundreds of thousands.

And then the liberals would blame therm for that, as they did not have George Bush, and or global warming.

[Pelham]

Allied casualties were running 7,000 per week.

10 more weeks of fighting would have generated Allied casualties equal to those killed in the Hiroshima bomb. 20 weeks would have equaled the total of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And an invasion of Japan would have been the hardest fighting of the entire war. Casualty estimates were predicted st from 2-4 million Allied troops and 5-10 million Japanese.