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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
10-15,000 planes held in reserve for kamikaze attacks. Massed forces on the southern end of Kyushu. Aviation fuel, ammo stockpiled. Doesn't sound like "about to surrender" to me.
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My history teacher had an professor at college who was in elementary school in Japan during WWII. He told him a story about how as kids they were taught to run under American tanks while gripping a satchel charge.
This story really hit home for him, see his dad was in WWII in the US Army and served in the ETO (With Patton). After VE day they put him on a ship to the Pacific. Now he was really tall (my teacher was like 5'10" and his dad was taller than him he said) so the PTB decided the first people to storm the beaches in Japan would be the tallest troops since as the Japanese of that time were short it would be intimidating they thought. But the invasion never happened.