OT. 2/23/45 Marines and a Flag

I just finished the book, "Indianapolis" which describes its battles in the Pacific and its sinking. Japanese would fight to the death. Besides kamikaze pilots they had kaiten maned suicidal torpedoes. The Japanese submarine that sank the Indianapolis used conventional torpedoes and spared his kaiten men who were wanted to go.

They knew they were going to be defeated but wanted a brokered peace with end of hostilities but leaving them in control which we refused.

The Indianapolis transported the first atomic bomb to the Pacific. We could have defeated them without using it but might have lost 300,000 men in doing so.