From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:4434215b{at}w3....
>> >> Our experience of the desperation of Japanese defense on outlying
> islands
>> >> was more than instructive.
>
>> > Shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  What would they have done -
>> > bitten your legs off?
>
>> You mean like Okinawa?
>
> Is ANYONE reading what I write?
>
> Of course not like Okinawa.  That was a well-supplied garrison - before
> the
> blockade of the homeland became effective.  No way could the Japanese have
> repeated Okinawa.
>
>

I read what you wrote. Okinawa was an outlying island. It was the last stop
before the scheduled invasion of Japan ( 6th Marines etc ). Was the morale
of Japan's people lowered enough for them to surrender prior to the
scheduled invasion?  I think it may have been but I can understand Truman's
decision to drop the bomb . In his shoes I would have probably done the
same thing . A mistake where you risk a million casualties is better argued
by what-if historians.

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