Originally Posted by SouthWestPacificVet

Robert,

If you look back at my original post, before someone shortened it for a quote. That was the thinking of the day, also the invasion force preparation was not a last minute idea if the bombs didn't work, we were involved in training assault troops stateside for the invasion, and that was in the late spring of '45. When I use the term "we" at times, I do not mean the country in general, I was assigned a company to oversee the task along with a number of men I knew overseas, watching all the eager teenage faces drilling and learning to fight, and those kids had no idea what they were getting into. I'm glad none of them ever had to find out.