And -- just as Shermans swarmed Panther and Tiger tanks, just as the small numbers of Messerschmitts and maintenance requirements made them less of a factor -- Japanese jets wouldn't have turned the tide.
Good thing we used the nukes, all the same.
We should have followed up by nuking Moscow.
Cheers!
Shermans were must faster and more maneuverable that either the Panther and Tiger tanks, allowing the swarm tactic to work. In this case, the Jap jets were the faster and more maneuverable. Not to mention their guided missiles and superior machine guns and large ammo loads. The Japs had hindereds of these jet ready to launch - would have been a rough parity in numbers.
But exactly what defense would our ships have had against land-based guided anti-ship missiles?
“Good thing we used the nukes, all the same.”
Yes it is, as the Chinese were very impressed at “the good work” we did when they saw the remains of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... else they were planing to totally exterminate all Japanese.
Nuking Moscow? Well, only if all the Democrat pro-Russia Communists surrounding the Presidency had suddenly died under mysterious circumstances... taking out Mao, however, would have saved 10s of millions of Chinese lives - some 30 million were killed by Mao after the war, bringing his personal total to between 60-75 million murders.