I looked up the Eisenhower quote. It’s genuine:
Even if that quote is accurate, Ike was mistaken in his opinion that Japan was defeated before the bomb.
They weren’t.
The IJA had over one million men and the entire country was being developed for a defense in depth - trenches stretching from coast to coast peppered with heavily fortified pillboxes and bunkers, all manned with army troops and millions of hastily trained civilians.
And behind that defensive line was another one, then another, then another, then another.
The Japanese were prepared to sacrifice every man, woman and child in defense of their homeland.
Until Hirohito chose surrender — after the Nagasaki bomb, saving tens of millions of Japanese lives.
Which proves nothing, but leads me to assign it low credibility.
YMMV.
I looked up the Eisenhower quote. It’s genuine:
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I read his autobiography.
I don’t beleive it’s genuine just cuz some link said it was.
Doesn’t sound anything close to his biography.
That was published in 1963.
And reads like revisionist history.
Ike spent the whole war in the ETO. Would anyone ask MacArthur his opinion of the war in Europe. Ike was wrong if serious. But he was it was a later political sop to make Japan feel good about being an ally.