But that is the wonder of "What Ifs" T.A. LOL. If they could have advanced down from southern Sakhalin and the Kuril islands and perhaps built airfields on them to support an invasion. And IF Operation "Olympic" had been conducted with the Soviets involved what would have stopped the Soviets from doing the same thing that they did to Germany and try to capture as much as thay could of Japanese territory? Would the US have allowed the Soviets to divide Japan? Especially MacArthur?

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