[SauronOfMordor]

Estimates of U.S. losses alone were 1-2 million.

Unexamined by historians, is what the American attitude would have been regarding the loss of 2 million of our sons, husbands, and fathers.

I think we would have wound up applying the "Carthage option" to Japan: total genocide.

Does anyone here seriously disagree?

[JimRed]

I think we would have wound up applying the "Carthage option" to Japan: total genocide.

I seem to recall a general or admiral saying something like "When we are finished the Japanese language will only be spoken in Hell".