-The two-stage plan, Operations Olympic and Coronet, would have involved more than twice the forces of the Normandy landings and was expected to be unimaginably costly. -Facing a fanatical defense, ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: The Navy had little long-term strategic role for its battlefleet. In mid-1945 the U.S. Navy (USN) had an unusual, and unexpected, problem. With the naval... Here’s What ...