HST 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Curtis Lemay, Potsdam Conference
17 Apr 2019
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Japan started to recognize that they could not win the war, but still refused to surrender. Roosevelt, churchill, and mackenzie king plan their final attacks during the quebec city. Americans agree to take on strategic bombings of japan. Some of fiercest fighting in the war occurred on iwo jima as well as okinawa. Us troops landed on february 19, 1945. Us marines landed over 100 000 troops on the island and had killed almost every one of. Iwo jima was bloodiest battle of the pacific war, japan turned island into fortress the 21 000 japanese troops defending it. Japanese outnumbered with men, and resources in both battles. Kamikaze pilots took more of a role at okinawa as a last ditch effort to counter the. Heavy bombings on main lands to make japanese accept defeat. Kamikaze saw their lives as insignificant to the whole of the country.
