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Originally posted by Za Rodinu:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by ANZAC:
On the need for invasion and up to a million casualties the US Strategic Bombing Survey reported....
'...it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, ...'
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So this is written with the benefit of hindsight and we will never know if it would be true or not. Even if true, how many people, Japanese and others, would have to die until surrender? The Japanese were beaten, yes, but when would their leadership surrender?
I don't think the "bombing into the stoneage campaign" would be allowed to let down in the meantime so in the main islands the cities would continue to be plastered while on the other fronts the war would continue to be waged, most likely at increased rate. </font>[/quote]And Allied Soldiers would continue to die in places like Bouganville, Borneo, Phillipines, Burma, Malaya & China.
In hidsight, the Japs were near surrendering, but when did they ever display commonsense during WW2.
To die is as light as a feather!!