My wife and children very likely wouldn't be here, either, as her grandfather was going to be headed to Japan. Hence, my wife's mother wouldn't have been born, and my wife, and children. So, it's not just the millions of lives that were saved, but the millions upon millions of lives that came into existence after the war, and the succeeding generations, due to not having to invade Japan.
Ditto.
My father was a C-47 navigator. His squadron was training to carry paratroopers for the invasion.