[Consim-l] Re: OK, drag out your copies of Operation Olympic and Divine Wind (if you didn't do so in 1988)

[bieksza at erols.com]

Some quick comments based on a hasty reading:
 
> The Eastern Assault Force  consisting of the 25th, 33rd and 41st
> Infantry Divisions would  land near Miyaski

A typo for "Miyazaki."  (It's correctly named later in the article.)

> Additionally, the Japanese were building  newer and more effective
> models of the Okka, a rocket-propelled  bomb much like the German V-1,
> but flown by a suicide  pilot. 

Okka is more commonly Romanized as "Ohka," which is how the 
Wikipedia entry labels it.

> The battle for Japan would be won by what  Simon Bolivar Buckner, a
> lieutenant general in the Confederate  army during the Civil War

Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. was commander of the Tenth Army in 
the Battle of Okinawa and was killed in action there.
 
> With American forces locked in combat in the south of Japan, little
> could have prevented the Soviet Union from marching into the northern
> half of the Japanese home islands. Japan today could be divided much
> like Korea and Germany. 

The Soviet Union declared war between drops of the two atomic 
bombs, and I've seen speculation that if Japan hadn't surrendered 
as expeditiously as it did the Soviets would have been part of the 
Occupation -- i.e. controlling the northern island, Hokkaido.  (For 
those who might be interested, that idea formed the background for 
an animated Japanese SF movie called "The Place Promised in Our 
Early Days.")