The LeMay Plan would have been combined with a complete naval blockade of the Japanese Islands, including destroying every possible boat, every fishing village, every ability to do anything near or on the water, with random naval bombardment thrown in, along with constant bombing from naval aircraft.
And deforestation from airborne defoliants, also to be used against the farmlands.
With most of the habitation destroyed, the naval fighters would be able to range all over, shooting up anything that moved.
Starvation would have killed pretty much everyone.
But the atomic bombs were sooooo bad (even though they were air-bursts so even the fallout was limited, versus what would have happened if we dropped ground-bursts.
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The LeMay Plan would have been combined with a complete naval blockade of the Japanese Islands, including destroying every possible boat, every fishing village, every ability to do anything near or on the water, with random naval bombardment thrown in, along with constant bombing from naval aircraft.
ReplyDeleteAnd deforestation from airborne defoliants, also to be used against the farmlands.
With most of the habitation destroyed, the naval fighters would be able to range all over, shooting up anything that moved.
Starvation would have killed pretty much everyone.
But the atomic bombs were sooooo bad (even though they were air-bursts so even the fallout was limited, versus what would have happened if we dropped ground-bursts.