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What If Japan Hadn’t Surrendered in WWII? A Look at the Horrifying ‘Operation Downfall’
National Security Journal ^
| 8/6/2025
| Robert Farley
Posted on 08/06/2025 8:24:29 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this analysis explores Operation Downfall, the massive Allied invasion of Japan that was averted by Tokyo’s surrender. The two-stage plan, Operations Olympic and Coronet, would have involved more than twice the forces of the Normandy landings and was expected to be unimaginably costly.
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To: Pennsyltucky Boy
My father was a 19 year old navy fighter pilot on an aircraft carrier headed for Japan when Japan surrendered.
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08/08/2025 10:53:36 AM PDT
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Bubba_Leroy
(Our long national nightmare is over!)
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