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This thread is on eleven years of Chicagoboyz blog VJ-Day commemorative columns.
2010 – Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Saving Hirohito’s Phony Baloney Job

This column is why it took both atomic bombs and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria to get the Japanese military to surrender

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2010 - Hiroshima — The A-bomb plus 65 years

This is focused on Richard B. Frank's column

"Why Truman Dropped the Bomb"
Sixty years after Hiroshima, we now have the secret intercepts that influenced his decision.

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2011 – Happy V-J Day!

This short column discusses Operation downfall with a map from the 6th Army Operation Olympic Assault Plan.

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2012 – Nagasaki Plus 67 Years

This column focuses on Henry I. Miller Forbes piece “ The Nuking Of Japan Was A Tactical And Moral Imperative!“ and the Shockley’s analysis of large-scale participation by Japanese civilians in repelling a U.S. invasion.

chicagoboyz.net/archives/31546…
Physicist William Shockley was on the staff of Secretary of War Henry Stimson & estimated that the invasion of Japan would cost 1.7-4 million American casualties, including 400,000-800,000 fatalities, and five to ten million Japanese deaths.

See:

forbes.com/sites/henrymil…
2013 — History Friday: US Military Preparations The Day Nagasaki Was Nuked

This column focuses on U.S. Military preparations on 9 Aug 45 via A-bomb pit plans, VB-6 Felix heat seeking bomb deployment and Flame tank production.

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2014 — The WMD Back-Up Plans for the Atomic Bomb

This column looks at three different US Military chemical warfare back up plans for the invasion of Japan including the use of German nerve gas, Recoilless rifle shells with CK gas and MacArthur's plan.

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For a background to General MacArthur;s CW options.

See --

Geoff Plunkett, Chemical Weapon Stocks 1943-1945
mustardgas.org/inventory.htm
2015 — Happy V-J Day, at 70 Years Plus a Day

This post includes video links to presentations by the leading historians of the period including Craig Symonds, Richard Frank, D.M. Giangreco, and John Kuehn

chicagoboyz.net/archives/49621…
2015 — Hiroshima, Nagasaki & The Invasion That Never Was (+70)

This column is on Operation Downfall -- the cancelled invasion of Japan -- and includes a video link and reviews of four counter-factual Invasion history story from 1971 - 2015.

chicagoboyz.net/archives/49405…
2016 — Happy V-J Day, Plus 71 Years and a Few Days

This is one of the largest Chicagoboyz VJ-Day columns and it focused on the use of SHORAN radio-navigation in the planned invasion of Japan.

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SHORAN was key to three USAAF bombing plans

1. The Small City Target Plan — Bombing out the smaller, 100,000 person or less, Japanese cities within range of Saipan to ‘induce’ a surrender;

(Planned B-29 bomb tonnage table attached) Image
2. The Transportation Plan — A massive two month (1 Oct – 30 Nov 1945) long campaign intended to destroy Japan’s rail system; and

3. Beach Preparations on Kyushu — The proposed B-29 carpet bombing of Kyushu beaches on 29, 30 and 31 October with 100 B–29 w-10 ton loads per plane. ImageImage
2017 — Happy VJ-Day, Plus 72 Years

This column traces the rise of “Atomic Diplomacy” from Paul Henry Nitze USSBS, through P.M.S. Blackett with his 1948 book “Fear, War and the Bomb: Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy” to...

chicagoboyz.net/archives/55768…
...it's it's post 1994-95 ENOLA GAY Smithsonian Exhibit Controversy take down by the likes of books like 1995’s "Truman and the Hiroshima Cult" by Robert P. Newman, 1999’s "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire "by Richard Frank, and Robert P. Newman’s 2004 book...
..."Enola Gay and the Court of History."

Particularly damning in this regard was military historian Robert P. Newman found, and publicized in his books, that Paul Nitze lied in the USSBS report about the state of Japanese resistance in August 1945. Image
2018 -- Happy VJ-Day, Plus 73 Years

This column goes into the IJA Ni-Go & IJN F-Go Genzai Bakuden (atomic bomb) programs and how physicists on those programs enabled the Japanese military surrender via recognizing plutonium at Nagasaki.

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The column also points out the following:

"Between Ultra code breaking and radio direction finding the American military had pinpointed all the major Area Army (AKA Army Group), Army (AKA Corps) and Divisional HQ on Kyushu. With that and and SHORAN guided photo reconnaissance.. Image
..MacArthur and 20th Air Force were in a position to use nukes to decapitate all Japanese high command on Kyushu near-simultaneous with the invasion landings to keep the Japanese reinforcements against the landings disorganized for the 3-to-5 days they needed to get established." Image
2019 -- The Collapse of Atomic Diplomacy…Again?

This months delayed column was on a 2011 NHK documentary titled as follows:

“Atomic bombing – top secret information that was never utilized”
原爆投下 活(い)かされなかった極秘情報

chicagoboyz.net/archives/61168…
The NHK documentary answers questions that “Atomic Diplomacy” has never bothered to ask. Specifically “What did the Imperial Japanese Military & Government know about the American nuclear weapon program, when did it know it, and what did it do about it.”

dailymotion.com/video/xkev97
2020 -- Hiroshima and the Atomic Bomb…Plus 75 Years.

This column speaks to how the US military use it's secret SIGSALY digital radio-telephone system to communicate about the Atomic Bomb.

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Better Henry Miller Link -
realclearpolitics.com/2012/08/06/nuk…

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Most have focused on the drone strike videos, myself included, but it is the C4ISR system behind it that makes it the Spanish Civil War of the 21st Century.

C4ISR is this thread's subject
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@ChrisCardsFan @CBI_PTO_History It was more 81st ID than USMC, with Cableway and Tramway tech.

See:

History Friday: 81st ID’s Peleliu Lessons for MacArthur’s Invasion of Japan
August 23rd, 2013
chicagoboyz.net/archives/38212… ImageImage
@ChrisCardsFan @CBI_PTO_History From the closing section of the piece:

"This Sixth Army mass deployment of cableway and tramway devices would amount to a large technological surprise to the Imperial Japanese Army as American logistical units would be able to both move large amounts of men and material...
@ChrisCardsFan @CBI_PTO_History ...up and down mountain sides and across valley’s without roads."
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1/ This is is a thread on the implications on the proliferation of armed medium altitude long endurance (MALE) drones based on the on-going Azeri-Armenian war.
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This is the Roketsan marketing video:

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@CBI_PTO_History Justin,

You have no idea how useful that Japanese search sector map is in understanding SWPA radar deployments and especially putting Operation Chronicle in context.

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@CBI_PTO_History This is the Allied Solomons radar site map. Image
@CBI_PTO_History The Allies were strangling Japanese aerial surveillance with their radar deployments.

Where there was Allied radar coverage there were Allied fighters.
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@SiriusAstro @BO3673 @IdleMrBridle @BuddNicholas @bermicourt @crusaderproject The US Army in WW2 North Western Europe had a bigger stock of spare parts to repair destroyed tanks than it did replacement tanks...and it did not have enough spares.

See:
403a - Cables – In Log, ETOUSA (Gen Lee), Dec 23-31, 1944

Subject: Twelfth Army Group requirements for
@SiriusAstro @BO3673 @IdleMrBridle @BuddNicholas @bermicourt @crusaderproject ... medium tanks with 75 and 76 millimeter guns from present date to 1 February 1945.

Status of medium tanks, M4, with 75 and 76 millimeter guns in this command as of 16 December 1944 was as follows:

a. Table of Equipment authorization - 2,702
b. Authorized 30 day reserve – 298
@SiriusAstro @BO3673 @IdleMrBridle @BuddNicholas @bermicourt @crusaderproject c. Table of Equipment authorization plus authorized reserve - 3,000
d. Serviceable tanks on hand - 135
e. Unserviceable tanks on hand – 59
f. Estimated combat losses from 16 December 1944 to 1 February 1945 - 600
These facts indicate a total requirement to 1 February 1945...
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