Attack On Iran To Include Ground Forces

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[SunkenCiv]

Had there been no a-bombs (or if they hadn’t been dropped) the Japanese were preparing for defense of the home islands; to give the US a taste of what that would have been like, the Japanese defense of Okinawa was ferocious. Even after the two a-bombs, there were officers who didn’t want Japan to surrender, but they failed in their de facto coup attempt. :’) Nevertheless, the fire-bombing from the air of more than forty cities in Japan didn’t bring about Japanese surrender, but the a-bombs did. The USSR’s involvement only happened after V-E day, and had little or no impact on the outcome of the war in the east — other than what parts of Japan got stolen by the Russkies. (’:

[Perdogg]

Soviet forces finished off Japanese forces in Manchuko. US had planned operation downfall for November of 1945.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Perdogg, good page on Operation Downfall, didn’t see much about the Soviets.

“The operation was cancelled when Japan surrendered after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet Union’s declaration of war against Japan.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchuria#After_World_War_II

“After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945, the Soviet Union invaded from Soviet Outer Manchuria as part of its declaration of war against Japan.”