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Re: Whoa!

You can view the strategic plan for Operation Downfall
at:

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/cgi-bin/usamhi/DL/showdoc.pl?docnum=20


--- Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote:
> At 09:16 PM 4/21/2001 -0500, Ed Evanhoe wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> Not really.  The actual casualty estimates used by
> the War, Navy, and State
> Departments were more along the lines of 100,000 US
> battle deaths, 300,000
> wounded, and around one million civilian casualties.
>  The Okinawa paradigm
> suggested by Nimitz to template the Home Island
> casualty estimates was
> rejected before Potsdam due to the differing
> operational concepts behind
> Okinawa and DOWNFALL.  Still one hell of a butcher's
> bill, though.
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
> 


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