Operation Downfall — The Campaign to Conquer Japan Would Have Dwarfed the D-Day Landings

“The U.S. military, expecting the resistance of a ‘fanatically hostile population’, were making preparations for between 1.7 and 4 million casualties.” IT COULD BE called the world’s greatest battle… that never happened. Operation Downfall, the codename…

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