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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...
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    Proposed landing sites for Operation Downfall Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end...
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  • Look up downfall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Downfall may refer to: The Downfall (novel), an 1892 book by Émile Zola Downfall: The End of the...
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  • Part of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan in March 1946, made unnecessary by the Japanese surrender in August 1945 Operation Coronet Nighthawk...
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  • Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 historical war drama film written and produced by Bernd Eichinger and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. It is...
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  • 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...
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    in the War Department about conserving the bombs in production for Operation Downfall, and Marshall that the remaining cities on the target list be spared...
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    because of their proximity to the United Kingdom. Operation Dropshot Operation Pike Operation Downfall Plan Totality Seven Days to the River Rhine Soviet...
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    Downfall is a two-player game for players aged 7 and older, first marketed by the Milton Bradley Company in 1970. The game consists of a vertical board...
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    become detrimental towards the invading armies, in that, alike to Operation Downfall, the anticipated losses would have substantially increased for maritime...
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    Francisco-Suisun Bay area navy munitions depot at Port Chicago for Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan. According to Harry Morgan, who served...
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    operation of the Pacific War, Operation Downfall, the Allied invasion of Japan. The operation had two parts: set to begin in October 1945, Operation Olympic...
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    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)...
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    Japanese home islands against the projected Allied invasion during Operation Downfall (Ketsugo Sakusen) in the final stages of World War II. They were the...
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  • day Operation Downfall (the invasion of Japan) was to begin. The term also generically means "attack day". Y-Day 1 March 1946, the day Operation Coronet...
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    was still raging on, King promised a voluntary force to fight in Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan, while Progressive Conservative Party...
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  • Oppenheimer and Jack Kerouac stops research on the A-bomb. 33 Operation Downfall (French: Opération Downfall) 4 April 2018 2756081728 N/A October 1945: Without the...
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    Normandy campaign Liberation of France Operation Downfall Rhino tank The Italian Social Republic forces during Operation Overlord were composed of the 4,000...
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  • a 2002 manga series by Setona Mizushiro X-Day, the first day of Operation Downfall, the planned Allied invasion of Japan during World War II X Day or...
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  • Truman to order Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall to launch Operation Downfall, the Allied invasion of Japan. In preparation for the invasion, a...
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  • Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-03. Retrieved 2013-01-17. Antill, P. (2005). "Operation Downfall: The Planned Assault on Japan". v t e v t e...
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  • projected Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands in Operation Downfall (or Operation Ketsugō (決号作戦, Ketsugō sakusen) in Japanese terminology). Although...
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    in 1944, and planned to be used in the Allied invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall), the JB-2 was never used in combat. It was the most successful of...
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    admiral was made until 1945. At that time, during the preparations for Operation Downfall, the proposed invasion of Japan, the possibility was raised of promoting...
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    The trials of the T92 and T93 showed that they would be useful in Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland. To this end, special...
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  • projected Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands in Operation Downfall (or Operation Ketsugō (決号作戦, Ketsugō sakusen) in Japanese terminology). Although...
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  • July 16, 1945, fails. The novel goes on to depict the outcome of Operation Downfall, the 1946 invasion of Japan by American forces. The novel takes place...
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  • Dead Space: Downfall is a 2008 American adult animated psychological science fiction horror film directed by Chuck Patton, written by Justin Gray and Jimmy...
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     434–. ISBN 978-0345497956. Clayton Chun (2013). Japan 1945: From Operation Downfall to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 106–. ISBN 978-1472800206...
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    Philippine Islands, and prepared for the anticipated invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall). On 6 and 9 August 1945, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima...
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