174 - The Pacific, August 1945
The WW2 Podcast
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The Cloud Kukuland Attitude
From February of 1945, with the first carrier-launched strikes against the home islands, it was increasingly obvious that Japan was being deprived of essential imports. The combination of US Navy airstrikes and coastal interdiction combined with B-29s based in the Mariana's 1500 miles south of Tokyo were dropping mines in Japanese coastal waters. Eberir Hirahito toured the wreckage a few days later, he saw what he saw, he smelled what he smelled, but still he declined to intervene.
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