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There is plenty to be gained militarily by destroying the factories and workers that produce the bombs,bullets,fuel and equipment,even the food, of the enemy.

By war's end, our production was utterly overwhelming; tens of thousands of plans, dozens of aircraft carriers.

If there is no army left, that materiel is useless.

Their navy would not be able to transport any supplies to forces on other islands. The materiel would just pile up.

The accuracy of our air force in bombing is often cited as a reason for being unable to bomb military targets, such as such weapons stockpiles.

But as I've said before, air supremecy is key. If bombers meet no resistence, they can come in low enough on a clear day to be very accurate. That means not 20,000 ft, not 10,000 ft, that means 1,200 feet, 1,500 feet, good visibility, not to much wind. If 5,000 dive bombers came and did low-level attacks all day, with no disturbance from any enemy fighters because we had 1,000 P-51s in the air at the same time, they'd have eliminated whatever they were attacking.

This is exactly what our military has been doing since the first Gulf War over 20 years ago, they just don't need as many bombers because they have very few targets, relatively, and they are very accurate. Our air forces keep our ground forces safe, and the same tactics were well-known in WWII.

If any time you get a battalion-strength outfit all in one place and start moving towards the enemy ground positions, airplanes come over and bomb them to bits, it's tough to fight.

Our air forces keep our ground forces safe, and the same tactics were well-known in WWII.

We didn't have the equipment then that we do now. Nor the C3ISR to do what you suppose. Hidden enemy artillery would still be pounding the friendlies ashore. In previous battles, those positions had to be burned out, the holes sealed. Not in the effects column of airborne ordnance, it falls to men, not equipment.

Typical from someone ignoring the facts of WW2 .It took until late 1944 for the Allies to have the kind of air superiority you posit and bombers of that era flying at low altitude were very vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire from the ground. Vietnam era aircraft were vulnerable to surface to air missiles;McCain got shot down flying below the altitude he was supposed to be flying!The Gulf War smart bombs ,stealth aircraft,terrain-following missiles and all that were not available to the U.S.A, or Great Britain prior to the 1980s.