Actually, you do and the lack of skilled pilots led to most Kamikaze missions failing.Not that strong an objection--you don't need skilled pilots for Kamikaze missions.
Actually, you do and the lack of skilled pilots led to most Kamikaze missions failing.Not that strong an objection--you don't need skilled pilots for Kamikaze missions.
Why would they invade? They'll just keep dropping bombs and blockading Japan until they either surrender or there's nothing left.
The US was afraid that the Japanese population would be killed off to a sustainable level for the home islands and that Japan would be able to exist as a political entity without surrendering at all, hence that an invasion was needed.
I think they did. They still have around 6 months to make some and if they have a couple of hundred by the time the home islands are invaded, it would make stuff interesting.
It is less than a week so I think you just bumped it, no worriesAs noted above, Japan's industry had been firebombed into oblivion and the nation had been cut off from overseas trade. To exacerbate it all further, whatever of its skilled workforce that wasn't dead had been conscripted into the army. The best this submarine could give the Japanese would be a morale boost... and that won't change the fact that the Americans and Russians are coming.
EDIT: And I just necroed a dead thread...
A grand total of four of them. "Three crated Messershmitt Me-262 jet fighters and an ME-163 rocket-propelled fighter", remember. It's not like Japan had the industry or the time left to build any more.
A grand total of four of them. "Three crated Messershmitt Me-262 jet fighters and an ME-163 rocket-propelled fighter", remember. It's not like Japan had the industry or the time left to build any more.