Last Sunday, on History International, I saw the program X-Day-----The Invasion of Japan. The codenames of the invasions were the names of cars:
Buick, Ford, Cadillac, Dodge, and Hudson. X-Day would have been part of Operation Olympic-------which was scheduled to begin on November 1, 1945. Then Operation Coronet would have begun on March 1, 1946, which
was going to be called Y-Day. Dewey, assuming he was President at the time, would probably call a meeting to plan it. One person would have to be
left in the dark. That person, no surprise, would be Douglas MacArthur. Why?
Because he couldn't be trusted to keep his pie hole shut. The Navy, repre-
sented by Ernest J. King, and Admiral Leahy, remembered Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Both were bloodbaths and the butcher's bill was high. The Navy
didn't have the stomach for the fight. The Navy predicted casualties as high as two million men. That was for the invasion of Kyushu alone. The Japanese had built up its forces on Kyushu to 1:1. The Army, led by General of the Army, and later Secretary of State, George Marshall, massaged the numbers down to two hundred thousand. Even after the dropping of Little Boy, on Hiroshima, and Fat Man, on Nagasaki, there were projections of building another nine atomic bombs to bring the Japanese to heel if they didn't surrender.