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But even in July that year "Japan was so beaten On Luzon alone, there were still 115,000 active Japanese forces in July 1945.
by masonic 8y ago
But even in July that year "Japan was so beaten
On Luzon alone, there were still 115,000 active Japanese forces in July 1945.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoNot to mention that there was still a Japanese army running around beheading anything that moved in China (a slight exaggeration I know). They might have been beaten strategically but they sure weren't going to surrender anytime soon. The Japanese were willing to follow their cause to death (and they did so on Iwo Jima and Okinawa with no indication that they would not to the same on the home islands).