Chickenboy -> RE: We're the atomic bombs necessary (12/26/2014 11:29:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Reaper Chicken boy see the recent link I posted Extract as follows Invasion Scenarios Killed Wounded Missing Total Southern Kyushu, followed by Tokyo Plain 40,000 150,000 3,500 193,500 Southern Kyushu-Northwestern Kyushu (Japan sur-renders) 25,000 105,000 2,500 132,500 Southern Kyushu-Northwestern Kyushu-Tokyo Plain 46,000 170,000 4,000 220,000 Are these Allied casualty estimates? Presumably so. How many civilians would have died? Presumably many, many more than Allied soldiers-an order of magnitude higher? ETA: These were exclusively Allied casualty estimates. Truman's limited knowledge was quite vague: The published version of Truman's letter states that Marshall told him it would cost "at a minimum one quarter of a million casualties and might cost as much as a million. I see nothing there to contradict that the bombs saved lives if one includes Japanese civilians and military (some 900,000 in the home islands). It would have been an abattoir.
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