>>514023441
>The bombing was probably necessary to some extent
Well, considering Hap Arnold planned to move 10,000 B17s and B24s from Europe along with 1000 Avro Lancasters. They, along with the 1500 B29s and 3000 or so B17s, B24s and various twin engine bombers like the B25 and B26 already in theater and the additional 2000 B29s on order would have started round the clock incendiary bombing from newly established airfields in Okinawa. The plan was to burn the entire country to ashes and the only limitation was going to be if Dow Chemical could produce enough napalm to keep up with demand.