re: #171 jonhendry

Um, how would it have resulted in horrific civilian casualties on the Allied side?

Maybe she means some of our allies, not US civilians. Japanese troops were all over Asia, and the Philipines, and other Pacific Islands.

I know the number of US troop casualties we anticipated, we had so many body bags manufactured and sitting in the holds of our ships, that we haven’t had to buy any more since — even now, 70 years later, through Korea and Vietnam and Iraq and everything else we’ve done anywhere else, we still haven’t come close to using them all up.