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Originally Posted by Flaptail
It was estimated that the Allied casualties alone would number over a million. Thats 1 million guys on just our side, more than half of them would have been killed besides the maimed and wounded.
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Actually estimates for US deaths from an invasion of Japan were about 1/10th of that at the high end and about 1/50th of it at the low end.
1. The US insisted on unconditional surrender.
2. Japan says no, but they'd accept everything except getting rid of the emperor.
3. The US nukes Hiroshima and Nagaski, to show Stalin that we have two kinds of bombs and to try to halt their movement into China and Japan.
4. Japan surrenders.
5. The US lets them keep the emperor anyway.
Lots of internal documents show we wouldnt have had to invade. but really, the whole mass bombing of civilians lead to lots of deaths but didnt really reduce their military abililty much. same in germany.