Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "The Invasion of Japan - Operation Olympic / Downfall" video.

  1. The Germans fought hard in 1945 despite everything was lost. In world war 2 documentaries there are many allied solidiers saying fightning got much harder when the allies started to penetrate German land, and the German solidiers fought much harder when there was no more step back to take, because now the fighting was about protecting the holy German soil - and many solidiers even made suicidal attacks if that could benifit the German cause. And according to my limited knowledge so was it the same case for Japan. Okinawa was considered holy Japanease land by the defending troops, and the battle became one of the bloodiest for the Americans during the entire war. The military leadership would probably be ruthless in mobilizing everything for the war. But they would have many disadvantages on their side, since the Americans controlled the sky and sea, and Japan had lost all her imports from once mighty empire, most of her fleet laid at the bottom of the see, and skilled pilots had been lost. 80% of the infrastructure and 80% of the transport ships had been lost. Cities laid in rubble after bombraids even before the atomic bombs, and the firebombing raids killed even more people than the nukes. China, USSR, Britain and USA stood against a broken Japan. And this was a war that never could have been won anyways, even if Japan had sunk every US ship at the battle of Midway without any own losses. I usally think people exaggerate the importance of industrial might and numbers in wars - but this war is one exception because the American advantage was so crushingly strong from the start.
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