The year is 1946
With both Okinawa and Iwo Jima now occupied, Japan only controls its main islands, Manchuria, and the parts of China it still occupies.
The situation is more than desperate; it is impossible to turn around. The Japanese can win all they want on the battlefield, but their ever-dwindling industrial base, the Imperial Navy sunk in its entirety, and a quickly melting Imperial Army mean there is no longer hope for a victory against the United States.
The Allies have total control of the seas and the air (especially after the loss of over 3,000 aircraft in Operation Kikusui), and can defeat any Japanese division face-to-face, thanks to better fire support, equipment, and intelligence.
Regardless of the facts, the dismal odds and good old plain good sense, the Japanese military leadership in Tokyo will not accept any form of surrender. For the climactic battle to defend its home country, the imperial military had levied over fifty divisions and armed hundreds of thousands of civilians, as well as preparing more Kamikaze attacks.
The Battle for Japan is going to be bloody on both sides. The Americans, under the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz, prepare to execute Operation Downfall, the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.
And all across the Pacific, heroes fight and die. Marines on Honshu’s shorelines, Japanese soldiers in their trenches, and millions more.
This is the story (and the final chapter) of the Pacific War.
Genre: Science Fiction
With both Okinawa and Iwo Jima now occupied, Japan only controls its main islands, Manchuria, and the parts of China it still occupies.
The situation is more than desperate; it is impossible to turn around. The Japanese can win all they want on the battlefield, but their ever-dwindling industrial base, the Imperial Navy sunk in its entirety, and a quickly melting Imperial Army mean there is no longer hope for a victory against the United States.
The Allies have total control of the seas and the air (especially after the loss of over 3,000 aircraft in Operation Kikusui), and can defeat any Japanese division face-to-face, thanks to better fire support, equipment, and intelligence.
Regardless of the facts, the dismal odds and good old plain good sense, the Japanese military leadership in Tokyo will not accept any form of surrender. For the climactic battle to defend its home country, the imperial military had levied over fifty divisions and armed hundreds of thousands of civilians, as well as preparing more Kamikaze attacks.
The Battle for Japan is going to be bloody on both sides. The Americans, under the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz, prepare to execute Operation Downfall, the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.
And all across the Pacific, heroes fight and die. Marines on Honshu’s shorelines, Japanese soldiers in their trenches, and millions more.
This is the story (and the final chapter) of the Pacific War.
Genre: Science Fiction