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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4258742" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>From NPR: </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122591119" target="_blank">'Hell To Pay' Sheds New Light On A-Bomb Decision</a></p><p></p><p>"American war planners projected that a land invasion of Japan could cost the lives of up to a million U.S. soldiers and many more Japanese. These figures, Giangreco explains, were estimated based on terrain, the number of units fielded, and the number of enemy units they would have to fight.</p><p></p><p>"Around 1944," Giangreco says, "they ultimately came to the conclusion that the casualties on the low end would be somewhere around the neighborhood of a quarter-million, and on the upper end, in through the million range."</p><p></p><p>Giangreco says that many Americans and Japanese lives were saved by avoiding a land invasion of Japan.</p><p></p><p>"It's astounding," he says. "While we were looking at some of our own casualty estimates, the Japanese military was doing much the same thing, and the figure of 20 million appears again and again."</p><p></p><p>Giangreco says just the number "20 million" is horrific — but he is most stunned by the casualness with which it was used by Japanese military leaders who felt that the loss of life was worth it."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4258742, member: 48469"] From NPR: [URL='https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122591119']'Hell To Pay' Sheds New Light On A-Bomb Decision[/URL] "American war planners projected that a land invasion of Japan could cost the lives of up to a million U.S. soldiers and many more Japanese. These figures, Giangreco explains, were estimated based on terrain, the number of units fielded, and the number of enemy units they would have to fight. "Around 1944," Giangreco says, "they ultimately came to the conclusion that the casualties on the low end would be somewhere around the neighborhood of a quarter-million, and on the upper end, in through the million range." Giangreco says that many Americans and Japanese lives were saved by avoiding a land invasion of Japan. "It's astounding," he says. "While we were looking at some of our own casualty estimates, the Japanese military was doing much the same thing, and the figure of 20 million appears again and again." Giangreco says just the number "20 million" is horrific — but he is most stunned by the casualness with which it was used by Japanese military leaders who felt that the loss of life was worth it." [/QUOTE]
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