I don't believe the land invasion would have been necessary.
Nevertheless the United States seriously prepared for launching such an invasion, and Japan seriously prepared for repelling it, even issuing schoolgirls with awls and telling them to attack American soldiers in the belly.
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Re: FYI
Date: 2006-03-16 09:51 am (UTC)Nevertheless the United States seriously prepared for launching such an invasion, and Japan seriously prepared for repelling it, even issuing schoolgirls with awls and telling them to attack American soldiers in the belly.
Read Downfall by Richard Frank.