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The lack of sympathy for the Japanese at that time, is epitomised by the first hand knowledge of people like Jacob Beser who knew only too well of the savagery that the Japanese forces were capable of.
The generals et al who later voiced their disagreement, along with Eisenhower (was president), MacArthur (I could be president) were prepared to obliterate the Japanese people with incendiary bombing and then invade with more of our son's, and still to be agreed forecast death rate on both sides.
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Jacob Beser had no moral qualms about the use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima. He had seen the return of U.S. prisoners of war, among them nurses who had had their tongues cut out. Japan had fought hard and with determination on its own soil. Many more people would have been killed as a result of an invasion than by both atomic bombs.
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Casualties of one Million or 5 Million, less or more?
There were over 10,000,000 Japanese men and women reservists, over and above the army numbers, who also trained in the art of warfare with Bamboo shafts and Knives crafted from ceramic due to the steel shortage. These would have been unleashed on any invasion force.
Then, let us not forget the Russians who were on the doorstep. They knew how to kill, rape pillage as well as the Japanese. What would the result of that episode of inhumanity have been?