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They had volunteered to kill themselves in the belief that they would be the famous frontline of an avenging force. Now the Kamikazes had struck the first blows and indefinite delays were being declared, causing the men to feel that their lives were to be squandered. And on the battlefields knowing their deaths were near, the Japanese waited for American soldiers to find their dugouts so they could kill as many Americans before their own deaths. Lack of presidential skills, bad relations with the Russians and racism were mere scapegoats for the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. President Harry Truman knew that without a fierce attack of two atomic hits to Japan, would come more endless games to play, more casualties to suffer, and an unsure victory to come. The game was in play, Japan knew they had lost the war but they were still playing with the United States. ˇ°Studies by the Japanese themselves had concluded that the war was lost by January 1944ˇ± (data reference #4). The Japanese had known that it was a hopeless state for them, the war was not theirs, but it did not seem to matter.
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