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To: Buttons12
They couldn't replace planes (not to mention skilled pilots), or ships.

They were saving planes for the US invasion of Japan. When they surrendered the Japanese actually possessed some 12,700 aircraft in the Home Islands, roughly half kamikazes.

84 posted on 08/06/2022 7:53:54 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: tlozo

“Replace.” They couldn’t replace planes. Or ships. And they never would be able to do so.
Imperial Japan had run out of gas. Literally. They hadn’t the fuel to continue the war, they hadn’t the pilots, and they weren’t going to be getting off the ground, which even kamikaze pilots require.


103 posted on 08/06/2022 8:04:37 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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