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Re: Whoa!

To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
Subject: Re: Whoa!
From: <Jhk789@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:41:28 EDT
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In a message dated 4/21/2001 8:10:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
msmall@roanoke.infi.net writes:

<< 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 >>

Thanks for the correction Marc!

Ed definitely has a tendency to exaggerate when it comes
to numbers. Sometimes underestimate, sometimes overestimate!

John

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