LIFE AND SUCCESS BECAUSE OF THE ATOMIC BOMB

1668 WD

After defeating Nazi Germany there was only one step for the United States to end World War II and achieve world peace. The U.S. had to make the Japanese Empire surrender. The U.S. armed forces had already devastated the Japanese and conquered Japanese territories of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Japanese-held Luzon at a very high casualty rate. The last effort to make Japan surrender was to invade the mainland. This was going to be a very difficult task since Japan still had a relatively intact army of two million men in the mainland, the support of the Fifth Air Fleet of dedicated kamikaze pilots, and a 28 million Patriotic Citizens Fighting Corps. Invading mainland Japan would cost the U.S. a high number of casualties and the destruction of many ships, in addition to thousands of allied prisoners that were ordered by the Japanese High Command to be executed if the invasion was to occur. The casualties for