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OCR Page 1 of 2TRUMAN
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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