At 02:06 AM 7/23/01, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>Ronn Blankenship wrote:
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> >
> > At least a million combatants on each side.
> >
>At this site, which is actually a high school kid's report (heavily footnoted
>though) http://users.erols.com/goodmank/ it says that "In a meeting on 18 June
>the Joint War Plans Committee gave Truman projected death rates ranging from a
>low of 31,000 to a high of 50,000(42), and a projected causality rate (deaths,
>injuries and missing) of 132,500.(43) During fighting in the Pacific, from 1
>March 1944 to 1 May 1945, the Japanese were killed at a ratio of 22 to 1.(44)
>Thus, if we use an estimate of 40,00 American deaths, we can extrapolate
>880,000 Japanese deaths--for a combined total of 920,000 deaths."
>
>The footnote (42) sites a biography of Truman by a David McCullough.
Hmm. All I can say is that differs from most reports I have read
(published anywhere from soon after the war ended to a few months ago),
which all give the larger numbers.
--Ronn! :)
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