Checkman
April 8, 2004, 09:36 AM
This is a transcript of "OPERATION DOWNFALL (U.S. Invasion of Japan): US PLANS AND JAPANESE COUNTER-MEASURES" by D.M. Giangreco, US Army Command and General Staff College, 16 February 1998.
It's an interesting presentation in which the tactical details of a invasion of Japan are discussed. The Japanese countermeasures, their tactical preparations, the casulty projections, the actual number of troops available to the allies etc. It's a good read and goes beyone the standard stuff that we all quote when discussing this issue. I just checked this link and it works.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/giangrec/htm (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/giangrec.htm)
It's an interesting presentation in which the tactical details of a invasion of Japan are discussed. The Japanese countermeasures, their tactical preparations, the casulty projections, the actual number of troops available to the allies etc. It's a good read and goes beyone the standard stuff that we all quote when discussing this issue. I just checked this link and it works.
www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/giangrec/htm (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/giangrec.htm)