"Slapshot" wrote in message
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Just the old footage of thousands of Japanese women and children training
to
fight US forces with spears in the event of invasion should tell anyone
that
going into Japan would have been far worse for both sides than the option
that was taken.



In Okinawa around 1/3 of the civilian population were killed during
the fighting. Total Japanese and Okinawan casualties have been
estimated at 130,000 military and 142,000 Civilian

That level of conflict on the Japanese Home Islands would produce
a casualty count that would make the death toll from Hiroshima
and Nagasaki seem like a minor event.

Keith