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2023-07-24 19:41:35 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B91956B72063A58746EC9F0D7331721744E748212EFF120C4CC8F7A0055EBF65
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The brutal up-close fighting at Okinawa, including suicide attacks & civilian suicides, convinced US planners that conventional war on the Japanese mainland would have high casualties for both military & civilians. A post-war review of documents supported this view. https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm#:~:text=Truman%20and%20his,casualties%20as%20well. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/03/atomic-bomb-oppenheimer-hiroshima-nagasaki-world-war-ii-history/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-history-okinawa/historians-battle-over-okinawa-ww2-mass-suicides-idUST29175620070406#:~:text=women%20and%20children.-,Many%20civilians%2C%20often%20entire%20families%2C%20committed%20suicide%20rather%20than%20surrender%20to%20Americans%2C%20by%20some%20accounts%20on%20the%20orders%20of%20fanatical%20Japanese%20soldiers.,-%E2%80%9CThe%20army%20ordered https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/31023/Suicide-Cliff-Okinawa.htm
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