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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2570)12/11/2002 7:58:54 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 3959
 
post-war study revealed that a US invasion would have cost 20-40,000 lives. And that was an invasion.

Well, first of all POST-WAR studies weren't available at the time the decisions were made. Second, the study must be crap because it is foolish to conclude that an invasion of the Japanese home islands would cost far fewer lives than the invasion of Okinowa had. In 1945, we'd had a lot of experience invading Japanese held territory - i.e. the Japanese held islands in the Pacific. That experience showed that Japanese would stubbornly resist invasion.
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