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Japanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945
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People don't seem to understand how fucking hard if would have been to do a land invasion. It would have made D-Day look like a Kindergarten Macaroni project.
Probably would have resulted in nukes being used anyways, but only after millions of deaths on both sides.
Bring it CCP. We will fuck you up. - Taiwan
That's assuming a land invasion was required.
Up to that point in the war every single interaction showed that the only way to take territory from Japan was a land invasion. You couldn't bomb shell out starve them out of any of the Pacific islands, what would make anyone think you could do that too them in their homeland?
There was as far as the US was concerned no approach that ended the war without landing troops in Japan.