Japan '45 - how is it ?

[Sgt Jasper]

That really shouldn't be a surprise, given what we know about the casualties the U.S. War Department was projecting. Nothing short of hideous. I used to work with a guy whose father survived the Battle of the Bulge and the end of the war in Europe, and whose outfit was in transit to the Pacific when the Japanese surrendered. He said he'd pretty much resigned himself to dying, and he figured the surrender saved his life.