....My Dad was at Okinawa and it was really bad...the fanatical resistance there helped convince Truman to eventually drop the bomb...if the Japs fought that hard at Okinawa, imagine the meat grinder of invading the home islands.
My dad had been on Okinawa, too. When the bomb dropped he was back on Luzon, retraining and refitting for the next invasion. Dad wasn’t starting any long books...