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TRUMAN MARRY U.S. & ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE" government LIMITED JUNE 10, 1945. The Joint Chiefs of Staff held a special meeting to hear details of the pending Pacific operation to defeat the Japanese, pfepafed byrthe planning staff. These plans contemplated invasion of the Japanese mainland. Leahy Wrpte that none then knew the potentialities of the atomic bomb but it was his opinion and he urged it strongly on the Joint Chiefs that no major invasion of the Japanese mainland was necessary to win the war. He wrote: "The JCS did order the preparation of plans for an invasion but the invasion itself was never authorized." (page 245)

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