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Old 10-08-2007, 03:48 AM   #7 (permalink)
Ironduke
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In April the Joint Chiefs of Staff estimated there would be 446,000 casualties in Operation Olympic -- it was predicted and was indeed the Japanese strategy to target troop transports and not warships in the event of an invasion. It was estimated that 1/3 to 1/2 of troop transports could be lost to kamikaze attacks.
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