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Quote:
Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
D-Day remains as one of the largest invasions ever on 6 June 1944.
Less than a year later the Americans conducted the invasion of Okinawa on April 1, 1945. It took 82 days to capture the island. 160,000 casualties on both sides: at least 75,000 Allied and 84,166–117,000 Japanese. 149,425 Okinawans were killed.
Compared to the deaths in Hiroshima of 146,000 Japanese and not one American. Of course it took one more bomb to convince Japan to surrender.
The death estimates of Americans and Japanese for a invasion of the main islands of Japan was staggering.
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Why President Truman said the decision to drop the bomb was one of the easiest wartime decisions he made.
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