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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The Japanese were hardly preparing to surrender.
Radio intercepts had them preparing for a murderous fight to the death with American blood staining every inch of the Japanese mainland.
It was irrelevant that their airforce and navy were destroyed. The japanese were going to force the American's to clean out every house, every tunnel every field no matter what the cost was to their own civilians.
They didn't even surrender after the American's dropped the first bomb. It took the combined horrors of both of them.
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I was clarifying where I got the info as you were replying. The book did also mention what you stated here, as well as some other plans the Japanese had, but stated that they were purposely allowing many things to be intercepted in order to confuse the Americans. It was probably a bit of revisionist history.