How does it all end for the bad guys?

I always have questions for generals and admirals who are no longer among us. In the movie "MacArthur," there is a scene in which the general is informed of the atomic bomb project. He is livid that he was unaware of its existence. His aide tries to calm him by saying, “But what if it doesn’t work?” MacArthur, who at the time in the movie was preparing for a massive amphibious assault on the Japanese main islands in the Fall of 1945, replied, “But what if it does!” Was MacArthur relieved when the war ended in September 1945, or was there some lingering desire to lead a landing bigger than the Normandy effort?

If one looks at the end of World War II, not only did the theaters end at different times, but they also ended in quite different ways. For Americans, Brits and others, it really didn’t matter. Dancing on Broadway or in Piccadilly Circus was not dependent on exactly how the enemy decided that the game was up. But in larger terms, there were differences. The Germans were finished. Hitler was dead, Berlin was captured, the Wehrmacht was broken. And while there were fears of continued fighting from SS units in Bavaria, the Germans no longer had any forces that could be armed, supplied, or led into battle. The same was not necessarily true in Japan. Tojo’s government wanted to keep fighting after the atomic bombs and the entry of the Soviet Union into the Pacific war. The Japanese people had been trained in defending their home islands, and casualty estimates for MacArthur’s planned landing involved millions of dead and wounded on both sides. On the command of the emperor, played on loudspeakers throughout the devastated country, Japan surrendered. Because it was the emperor who ended the war and supported MacArthur’s rebuilding effort, U.S. forces experienced very little trouble with the defeated Japanese population.

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