Originally Posted by
Lima Juliet
If you think like that, next you’ll be claiming that the Battle of Hastings secured the airfields for the Battle of Britain! Also, as I understand it the Soviets only took the Kuril Islands ..
You may disagree but rattman is correct , many modern historians are of the opinion that it was actually a combination of the A bomb raids
and then the Soviet invasion of Manchuria that led to the Japanese surrendering when they did.