Ebook: Hell to Pay : Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
Author: Giangreco D M
- Tags: Operation Downfall 1945-1946., United States -- Armed Forces -- History., World War 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan., History., HISTORY -- Military -- World War II., Armed Forces., Military campaigns., Japan., United States.
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- City: New York, United States, Japan., United States
- Language: English
- epub
Hell To Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 is a comprehensive and compelling examination of the myriad complex issues that comprised the strategic plans for the American invasion of Japan. U.S. planning for the invasion and military occupation of Imperial Japan was begun in 1943, two years before the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In its final form, Operation Downfall Read more...
Abstract: Hell To Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 is a comprehensive and compelling examination of the myriad complex issues that comprised the strategic plans for the American invasion of Japan. U.S. planning for the invasion and military occupation of Imperial Japan was begun in 1943, two years before the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In its final form, Operation Downfall called for a massive Allied invasion--on a scale dwarfing D-Day--to be carried out in two stages. In the first stage, Operation Olympic, the U.S. Sixth Army would lead the southern-mos