It is my understanding that it was a political decision to reduce the loss of allied mainly U.S. lives in an invasion .The difficulty on Guadalcanal ( the island of death) where US and NZ forces attacked to form a base to attack Rabaul as well as keep the supply chain to Australia open and Okinawa etc shows how costly in terms of life an attack on Japan itself world of been
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The Japanese deserved what they got., page-53
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