I believe one million casualties for our side was the prediction for an invasion of Japan.
Don’t know if there was a prediction for Japanese casualties, but it probably would have been in the TENS. OF. MILLIONS.
Yes. My Dad was a chief on board CV 14 Ticonderoga. They were going to convert Navy personnel to infantry for the invasion. Being a big, stout guy, they had already told him he would be carrying a BAR. Not unreasonable to think he could have been one of the million. The Bomb is probably why I am here today. I think it was a net lifesaver for both sides, by a huge margin. It makes me swallow hard to think of what the alternative would have been.
If not for the A-Bomb, I may have never been born, my dad was to be a part of that invasion force.
Thank God for the Atom Bomb!
My Grandfather was a Corporal in the 6th Marine Division in the Pacific during WWII. He would have had to go to Japan if not for Truman dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You’ll never hear me complain about us dropping the A-bomb on Japan.
“I believe one million casualties for our side was the prediction for an invasion of Japan.”
Yes, and whatever the casualties for American troops, multiply that several fold for the number of Japanese who would have died, including possibly millions of civilians, as the Japanese high command would have seen to it that the civilians be given light weapons for home island defense.
That’s what it says in the third paragraph. Bold call there!