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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Thu Aug 6 15:06:55 2020, in response to Re: 75 Years Ago Today, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Aug 6 14:44:55 2020. In realistic hindsight, Japan should have been suing for peace after the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The Japanese Navy was no longer an effective fighting force after Leyte, and from that point forward Japan was only trying to stave off the inevitable.That said, had the two A-bombs not been dropped, it's likely that at least Operation Olympic would have been undertaken, resulting in an even greater death toll than that of the two Bombs. I do not believe Japan, having been invaded on their main islands in November 1945, would have held out until Coronet took place in early 1946. The peace party at the Imperial Palace would have prevailed, as they did in actual history after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed. |
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