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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.
Downfall (1945) – Proposed Allied plan for the invasion of Japan. Operation Sunrise (1945) – negotiations leading to German surrender in Italy. Eiche ("Oak") (1943) – German rescue from custody of Benito Mussolini
Amoy Operation: Japanese Fifth Fleet and Chinese Amoy Area: May 10–12, 1938 Battle of Wuhan: Chinese and Japanese forces: June 11 – October 27, 1938 Canton Operation: Japanese 21st Army and Chinese 12th Army Group: October – December, 1938 Hainan Island Operation: Japanese Hainan Conquest Forces and Chinese forces: February 10, 1939 ...
The Japanese 12th Area Army was formed on February 2, 1945 under the First General Army as part of the last desperate defense effort by the Empire of Japan to deter possible landings of Allied forces in central Honshū during Operation Downfall (or Operation Ketsugō (決号作戦, Ketsugō sakusen) in Japanese terminology). [1]
Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 is a book by Dennis Giangreco. It is about Operation Downfall , the proposed invasion of Imperial Japan during World War II . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Japanese 52nd Army was formed on April 7, 1945, under the Japanese 12th Area Army as part of the last desperate defense effort by the Empire of Japan to deter possible landings of Allied forces in central Honshū during Operation Downfall.
Volunteer Fighting Corps (国民義勇戦闘隊, Kokumin Giyū Sentōtai) were armed civil defense units planned in 1945 in the Empire of Japan as a last desperate measure to defend the Japanese home islands against the projected Allied invasion during Operation Downfall (Ketsugo Sakusen) in the final stages of World War II.