Let's play a game of guess the deaths. If Operation Downfall went into action (for whatver reason), what deaths would have resulted? Would Japan have abandoned Manchukuo and sent all its troops into Kyushu? Only a week before the atomic bombs went of all school children were armed with bamboo sticks and chisels.. estimates vary greatly between MacArthur's 125,000 casualties in 3 months, to Nimitz' 49,000 in one month, to the Joint Chiefs of Staff total losses projected at 1.2 million casualties. I assume these are American and do not account for Japanese fatalities, which, I assume with weapons like chisels and bamboo sticks, would have been far higher.
How much of a bloodbath would Downfall have been?
How much of a bloodbath would Downfall have been?
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