May I respectfully suggest this work of NON-fiction: Code-Name Downfall The Secret Plan To Invade Japan by Thomas B. Allen & Norman Polmar New York Simon & Schuster 1995 ISBN: 0-684-80406-9 351 pages Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com
It provided an alternative to the planned invasion of japan which would have cost thousands of lifes
To my knowledge, There was never a planned invasion of Soviet Russia by the US.
Japan has had a variety of military governments since feudal times and the days of the Shoguns, but in modern times Gen Hideki Tojo is credited with the militarization of Japan in the 1930's. Tojo planned Japan's invasion of China, and was Prime Minister when Japan attacked the United States with their sneak attack at Pearl Harbor.
The already planned mutual invasion of Japan by US and USSR. But this was expected to take 1 to 2 more years and many millions of lives on both sides, as well as the division into a communist North Japan and free South Japan. The 2 atomic bombs were very merciful by comparison.
They planned and carried out the invasion of Sicily, followed by the invasion of Italy.
See "The Planned Invasion of Japan: Bibliography of works by D. M. Giangreco" at http://www.waszak.com/giangreco_bibliography.htm .
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X-Day was the date 01 Nov 1945 of planned invasion of Japan, Operation OLYMPIC/MAJESTIC.
It provided an alternative to the planned invasion of japan which would have cost thousands of lifes
To my knowledge, There was never a planned invasion of Soviet Russia by the US.
Operational Downfall, or the American invasion of the Japanese home islands was planned sometime during October of 1945. The operation became moot after the total capitulation of Japan after the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan has had a variety of military governments since feudal times and the days of the Shoguns, but in modern times Gen Hideki Tojo is credited with the militarization of Japan in the 1930's. Tojo planned Japan's invasion of China, and was Prime Minister when Japan attacked the United States with their sneak attack at Pearl Harbor.
It saved millions of Japanese civilian lives that would have been lost in the planned year long invasion of Japan, had the bomb not forced the leaders to surrender.
Operation Sealion was the planned Nazi invasion of Britain that never took place. (It was planned for 1940).
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A committee and planning staff led by British General Morgan planned it for almost 3 years before it happened.
The already planned mutual invasion of Japan by US and USSR. But this was expected to take 1 to 2 more years and many millions of lives on both sides, as well as the division into a communist North Japan and free South Japan. The 2 atomic bombs were very merciful by comparison.