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Old 26-10-2007, 02:41 PM   #16 (permalink)
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A good summation Kyt which shows the conundrum which a new president found himself.

The Japanese had to pay the price for all of these unknown statistics not the allies. Russia would definitely have attempted another land grab as a reward for their part in the Japanese capitulation, which after their two faced approach in the Molotov pact, could not be condoned.

From figures that I have seen previously, the Japanese still had 5,000-12,000 aircraft available for fighter and Kamakazi attacks, 2.5 million troops and over 28,000,000 Japanese who had become a part of the National Volunteer Combat Force, civilians who were ready to die for the Emperor. They had also crafted knives for the civilians out of ceramic due to the shortage of steel.

I found the link which explains quite a lot about the proposed invasion. It is quite in depth but very eye opening.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro.../downfall.html
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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