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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Okay, so you're the armchair general, with the added benefit of fifty years of hindsight. What would you have done? How would you have avoided the kind of carnage we saw in the island battles? Can you imagine how bad that carnage would have been on the home islands?
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You know what is insane, is that the government (military leadership) of Japan wanted to go on fighting after the second atomic bomb. The Emporer had to intervene to force the surrender. He recorded the announcement of surrender on two discs for a broadcast the next day. That night there was an attempted coup and soliders stormed the radio office trying to destroy the discs. A loyal General put down the coup.
