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On Okinawa alone, the body count of Japanese came to 107,000 men and
11,000 prisoners of war. Another 25,000 men were apprently killed and
sealed in caves. The Japanese had lost 7,800 aircraft in the
concentrated attacks on the island and its environs or ten times as many
as the Americans, but the American casualties in the taking of Okinawa
alone had been heavy: about 75,000 officers and men.
So with this experience in the battle zone, it became all the more
alluring to use the most expensive and most effective secret weapon of
WW2...the Atom bomb. </span>
Nothing really. the war was already over but the troops from both sides didn't find out until after the battle. I guess it just saved the city from being destroyed.
The Declaration of Independence, which officially broke all political ties between the American colonies and Great Britain, set forth the ideas and principles behind a just and fair government, and the Constitution outlined how this government would function.
