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Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor... by vanusa on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:11PM (#30367148)
One can debate whether the Soviets would have been able to invade the Home Islands, or whether this would have been necessary to press the Cabinet into surrendering.

But it does seem strange to say they were not in a position to make a "meaningful" entry by that point, given the order of battle employed in the Manchuria campaign (per WP):

    1,577,725 troops
    27,086 artillery pieces
    1,152 rocket launchers
    5,556 tanks and self-propelled guns
    3,721 aircraft
    Mongolia:
    16,000 troops
Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor... by missedthecue on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:41PM (#30368555)
The allied invasion of Japan was going to consist of over 6 million allied soldiers.

1.5 million was not anywhere near enough. The Soviets fielded 2x that in the Battle of Berlin alone!