On 23 Jul 2001, at 3:38, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> >Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
Landing in the teeth of the enemy would cause far higher
casualties, mind you..
Andy
Dawn Falcon
