[DuncanWaring]

Okinawa was just as bad, if not worse.

And there are fools out there who claim that after the absolute carnage of the Pacific island campaign, the Japanese would have just rolled-over and surrendered once the home-island invasion started.

[21twelve]

In the movie my daughter was watching, many of the surviving Japanese said they were hoping for their surrender earlier in the war. They kept sending boys off to a war they knew they would not win.