[af_vet_rr]

Later on, in the exuberance of victory somebody else sent units to the Aleutians, Sakhalin and beyond, and to screw around in the South Pacific.

They ended up with a great deal of their ground combat units bogged down on islands we never attacked nor needed to attack. The Japanese were forced to supply those troops on those islands with ships that were probably needed to support activity in China. The Chinese venture continued, and then got worse when the US used safe areas in China as landing pads for bombings of the Japanese Home islands.

This is a what-if scenario worthy of a book or two. What if Japan had stayed away from islands and areas that nobody cared about.

[muawiyah]

There are books on that part of the 'what if".

One of the more intriguing aspects of the end of the war was the part played by Aristotle Onassis ~ he bought up Liberty ships, converted them to more civilian use, and shipped about 20 million Japanese people from Manchuria to Brazil for settlement in the South.

Anybody who tells you that you can't move 11 million illegal aliens from the US to Mexico is probably not aware of what Aristotle did.

I know a gentleman (Japanese American) who participated in relocating Japanese army units from throughout China to disembarkation areas in coastal cities.

For a short while he had effective command of the largest Japanese army under one "commander" in history. He had the name to go with that exalted status as well. His secret was simple ~ he could speak enough Japanese to tell the existing army field structure what to do, when to do it, and where to head.

After the war he devoted himself to the pursuit of peace ~