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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_Cymro" data-source="post: 336176" data-attributes="member: 40909"><p>True.</p><p></p><p>General MacArthur was even heard to have said that even then, if the Japanese government lost control over its people and the millions of former Japanese soldiers took to guerilla warfare in the mountains, it could take a million American troops ten years to master the situation.</p><p></p><p>Even scarier that the Japanese people believed they were not beaten and thought they were winning.</p><p></p><p>Even before the Atomic Bomb Tokyo was attacked the results of two B-29 incendiary raids over Tokyo were quite shocking. One of these raids killed about 125,000 people, the other nearly 100,000. More that the atomic bomb did.</p><p></p><p>Yet ...On July 26, 1945, the Potsdam Ultimatum called on Japan to surrender unconditionally. On July 29 Premier Suzuki issued a statement, purportedly at a cabinet press conference, scorning as unworthy of official notice the surrender ultimatum, and emphasizing the increasing rate of Japanese aircraft production. Eight days later, on August 6, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima; the second was dropped on August 9 on Nagasaki; on the following day, August 10, Japan declared its intention to surrender, and on August 14 accepted the Potsdam terms.</p><p></p><p>It was felt that if the bomb was not dropped then the entire island of Japan would being a huge aircraft base that would fly and counter attack with its planes. Posing more of a risk along with the threat of people of the ground. Japan would have gone to the last man to defend their country ... scary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_Cymro, post: 336176, member: 40909"] True. General MacArthur was even heard to have said that even then, if the Japanese government lost control over its people and the millions of former Japanese soldiers took to guerilla warfare in the mountains, it could take a million American troops ten years to master the situation. Even scarier that the Japanese people believed they were not beaten and thought they were winning. Even before the Atomic Bomb Tokyo was attacked the results of two B-29 incendiary raids over Tokyo were quite shocking. One of these raids killed about 125,000 people, the other nearly 100,000. More that the atomic bomb did. Yet ...On July 26, 1945, the Potsdam Ultimatum called on Japan to surrender unconditionally. On July 29 Premier Suzuki issued a statement, purportedly at a cabinet press conference, scorning as unworthy of official notice the surrender ultimatum, and emphasizing the increasing rate of Japanese aircraft production. Eight days later, on August 6, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima; the second was dropped on August 9 on Nagasaki; on the following day, August 10, Japan declared its intention to surrender, and on August 14 accepted the Potsdam terms. It was felt that if the bomb was not dropped then the entire island of Japan would being a huge aircraft base that would fly and counter attack with its planes. Posing more of a risk along with the threat of people of the ground. Japan would have gone to the last man to defend their country ... scary. [/QUOTE]
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