The Snapshots in Time Collection
'Invading Japan' – YANK, The Army Weekly Feature Article on Operations Olympic and Coronet, 1945
A page from YANK, The Army Weekly, published shortly after Japan's surrender in 1945, reveals the once-secret invasion plans Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet. Had Japan not surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these operations would have launched the largest amphibious invasion in history against the Japanese home islands. Project: 218485