Comments on: Did Britain make any preparations to join the U.S. in the expected invasion of Japan? http://www.historynet.com/did-britain-make-any-preparations-to-join-the-u-s-in-the-expected-invasion-of-japan.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 19 May 2013 02:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: lyndon http://www.historynet.com/did-britain-make-any-preparations-to-join-the-u-s-in-the-expected-invasion-of-japan.htm#comment-1009805 lyndon Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:42:51 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685859#comment-1009805 How many German Prisoners-of-war perished in the Gulag Archipelago between their capture and the return of 5,000 to German Federal Republic in 1955? How many German Prisoners-of-war perished in the Gulag

Archipelago between their capture and the return of 5,000 to

German Federal Republic in 1955?

]]> By: Jon Guttman http://www.historynet.com/did-britain-make-any-preparations-to-join-the-u-s-in-the-expected-invasion-of-japan.htm#comment-825790 Jon Guttman Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:27:35 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685859#comment-825790 Clark's successor, from October 1953 through his own retirement in April 1955, was double world war veteran General John E. Hull. Clark's successor, from October 1953 through his own retirement in April 1955, was double world war veteran General John E. Hull.

]]> By: Jon Guttman http://www.historynet.com/did-britain-make-any-preparations-to-join-the-u-s-in-the-expected-invasion-of-japan.htm#comment-825789 Jon Guttman Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:26:37 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685859#comment-825789 Jez, what you dismiss as a quick land grab involved 1,685,500 Soviet troops with armor, artillery and air support, transported across the length of the USSR to engage 1,217,000 Japanese, as well as 200,000 Manchkuoan and 10,000 Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia) soldiers. That the Soviets were better equipped and more experienced after having taken on the Germans accounts for the fact that they tore through the Japanese Kwantung Army within days, though fanatical Japanese holdouts fought on thereafter. By the time Soviet forces halted, they had killed 83,737 and taken 640,276 prisoners, for the loss of 9,726 dead and 24,425 wounded. that's pretty intense fighting for less than three weeks. More important, though, it shattered the last forlorn hope of diehard Japanese army commanders who believed (in a mirror image of Adolf Hitler's hopes) that the Soviet Union would enter the war on their side to counter the Western Allies. Jez, what you dismiss as a quick land grab involved 1,685,500 Soviet troops with armor, artillery and air support, transported across the length of the USSR to engage 1,217,000 Japanese, as well as 200,000 Manchkuoan and 10,000 Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia) soldiers. That the Soviets were better equipped and more experienced after having taken on the Germans accounts for the fact that they tore through the Japanese Kwantung Army within days, though fanatical Japanese holdouts fought on thereafter. By the time Soviet forces halted, they had killed 83,737 and taken 640,276 prisoners, for the loss of 9,726 dead and 24,425 wounded. that's pretty intense fighting for less than three weeks. More important, though, it shattered the last forlorn hope of diehard Japanese army commanders who believed (in a mirror image of Adolf Hitler's hopes) that the Soviet Union would enter the war on their side to counter the Western Allies.

]]> By: lyndon http://www.historynet.com/did-britain-make-any-preparations-to-join-the-u-s-in-the-expected-invasion-of-japan.htm#comment-821854 lyndon Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:11:27 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685859#comment-821854 Who succeesed general Mark Clark in October 1953 as supreme commander United Nation forces Japan? Who succeesed general Mark Clark in October 1953 as supreme commander United Nation forces Japan?

]]> By: Steve Elmes http://www.historynet.com/did-britain-make-any-preparations-to-join-the-u-s-in-the-expected-invasion-of-japan.htm#comment-820611 Steve Elmes Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:34:03 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685859#comment-820611 Britain also had to mop up Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and the Malay Peninsula, along with "assisting" the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies. Britain also had to mop up Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and the Malay Peninsula, along with "assisting" the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies.

]]> By: Jez Lewis http://www.historynet.com/did-britain-make-any-preparations-to-join-the-u-s-in-the-expected-invasion-of-japan.htm#comment-820608 Jez Lewis Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:15:41 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685859#comment-820608 So what did the so-called "Soviet Army" have to do with it, other than a quick "land grab" when they saw that Japan was being finished by the AMERICANS. They were too busy raiding and pilliaging in Germany, Poland and elsewhere, to care. So what did the so-called "Soviet Army" have to do with it, other than a quick "land grab" when they saw that Japan was being finished by the AMERICANS. They were too busy raiding and pilliaging in Germany, Poland and elsewhere, to care.

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