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The forgotten bombardment of Japan: Allied battleships, Operation Downfall, and the final naval assaults of World War II

As victory in Europe was secured in May 1945, the war in the Pacific raged on with undiminished ferocity. Facing Japan’s refusal to surrender and the horrifying projections of Operation Downfall, ...
Newsday

WWII could have ended differently

At the beginning of August 1945, few people would have predicted that World War II would be over within a month. Even the small number of Americans who were aware of the Manhattan Project — the secret ...
The National Interest

This Is How Operation Downfall, America’s Plan to Invade Imperial Japan, Would Have Gone

Operation Downfall would have made Okinawa look like a picnic. “The often-repeated common wisdom holds that there were only 5,500, or at most 7,000, aircraft available and that all of Japan’s best ...
The National Interest

Operation Downfall Was America’s Plan to Invade Japan (Millions Would Have Died)

Key point: What follows would have happened if Truman did not drop the Atomic bombs. One of the most controversial decisions in history was President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on ...