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The command at the time had fresh memories of the suicidal resistance from Wake Island to Okinowa. You can imagine the large impression all of the bodies made o
by delichon 1y ago
The command at the time had fresh memories of the suicidal resistance from Wake Island to Okinowa. You can imagine the large impression all of the bodies made on them. It must have been hard to convince them that the rest of the Japanese were different, and to bet so much on it.
- sandinmyjoints 1y agoYeah, the parent comment is interestingly and carefully phrased -- it is not claiming that the decision makers at the time could have known that Japan (according to this one report, anyway) would have surrendered without the bombings or invasion, but rather that since it is the case they would have (again, according to this report), that people should not claim the decision to bomb saved lives.