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      8 months ago

      Up to that point in the war every single interaction showed that the only way to take territory from Japan was a land invasion. You couldn’t bomb shell out starve them out of any of the Pacific islands, what would make anyone think you could do that too them in their homeland?

      There was as far as the US was concerned no approach that ended the war without landing troops in Japan.