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Re: Whoa!


>Mike,

> >>      Here's a little World War II story to warm your cockles: The planned
>amphibious invasion of Japan in 1945 was code-named "Operation Olympic." The
>2nd Marine Division was given the "honor" of spearheading the first landings,
>an attack that would include a total of 36 divisions (hmmmm, how many
>divisions at D-Day Normandy?).  After D-Day+5 the planners make no mention of
>the 2nd Marine Division in subsequent advances "because it was assumed that
>by then the division would have been annihilated."   <<

And the do-gooders of the world fault the US for using the A-Bomb.  I 
wonder how many of these same people would have been born if we had of 
invaded Japan and fought our way up the island chain?  Estimates were a 
million plus casualties on our side alone and 30 million Japanese.  In 
other words, they didn't expect to take many prisoners, even among civilians.

Ed