Hell to pay
Subtitle: Operation Downfall and the invasion of Japan, 1945-47
By: D.M. Giangreco.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591143161
Subjects: Operation Downfall, 1945-1946; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan; United States -- Armed Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: "Three colonels" / by Stanley Weintraub; title: "The maximum bloodletting and delay"; title: Spinning the casualties; title: The First Army and Kwantung redeployments; title: The Pacific build-up and Berlin decision; title: "Not a recipe for victory "; title: The decision; title: Japanese defense plans; title: "Victory might be salvaged"; title: The "manpower box"; title: Mistakes and misperceptions; title: What is defeat?; title: The amphibious operation; title: On the ground; title: Unexamined factors; title: A "target-rich environment"; title: Half a million Purple Hearts; title: "Punishment from heaven"; title: Afterword; title: Appendix A: G-2 estimate of enemy situation on Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, August 1, 1945; title: Appendix B: G-2 analysis of Japanese plans for the defense of Kyushu, U.S. Sixth Army, December 31, 1945; title: Appendix C: Proclamation defining terms for Japanese surrender issued at Potsdam, July 26, 1945 (Potsdam Declaration).