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To: slacker711 who wrote (61566)	4/24/2008 3:57:28 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 542134

>>Why do you think that the invasion of Japan would be anything but a large multiple of those figures? Everything I have ever read indicates that Japan would have fought even more fanatically for their homeland and were training civilians to participate in the fighting.<< Slacker - As I have said, I don't know what the figures would have been, nor do I think anyone else can determine that with certainty. At this point, it's Monday morning quarterbacking anyway. Truman had only the information that was available to him at the time. I've read things that indicate that Japan's war effort was in its last throes, to borrow a phrase, in the Summer of 1945. I doubt that they could have long withstood a direct assault on the mainland. I believe most civilians would have fled such an invasion, which they were unable to do in Okinawa. Certainly the women and children would have. - Allen