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Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II. The planned operation was canceled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , the Soviet declaration of war , and the invasion of Manchuria . [ 1 ]
Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.. The operation had two parts, Operation Olympic, intended to capture the southern third of the southernmost main Japanese island, Kyūshū, and Operation Coronet, the planned invasion of the Kantō Plain, near Tokyo, on the main Japanese island of Honshu.
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
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Summer 1945: Begins planning the invasion of Japan (codenamed Operation Downfall) with a tentative starting date of 1 November 1945. 26 July 1945: Briefed by Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell about the atomic bomb. 6 August 1945: MacArthur stunned by the news of the use of the atomic bomb to destroy Hiroshima. He is quoted as saying that ...
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The 82-day battle on Okinawa itself lasted from April 1, 1945 until June 22, 1945. After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were planning to use Kadena Air Base on the island as a staging point for Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of the Japanese home islands, 340 mi (550 km) away.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman approved Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan. The plan called for 5 million troops to invade Kyushu starting November 1 and then Honshu starting March 1, 1946.