75 years ago

[JosephStalin]

I don't think the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. They got to keep their fucking emperor.

Close enough. This prevented an insurgency. And when you look at the picture of the Emperor visiting General MacArthur, it's obvious who's in charge.

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur meeting for the first time, 1945 - Rare Historical Photos

On September 27, 1945, Emperor Hirohito paid a visit to General Douglas MacArthur at the United States Embassy in Tokyo. In all three photos were taken.

rarehistoricalphotos.com

Taking off the bait mode for a second, let's pay a little respect to how big an undertaking this was. To keep track of and move that many man, ships, and tanks? And to do so before the advent of computers? It staggers the mind.

Absolutely. At most, punch cards would have been used for certain applications. You also had tabulators, a sophisticated adding machine. And no email? Lots of memos and letters written, electrical messages going over radioprinter, telegrams, perhaps a fax, and the telephone. Took a LOT of people to coordinate logistics this way. But stuff got where it needed to go.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

Absolutely. At most, punch cards would have been used for certain applications. You also had tabulators, a sophisticated adding machine. And no email? Lots of memos and letters written, electrical messages going over radioprinter, telegrams, perhaps a fax, and the telephone. Took a LOT of people to coordinate logistics this way. But stuff got where it needed to go.

Don't forget all the gay ops that went on to deceive the Germans; dumping bodies in the sea carrying fake invasion plans, coded messages to the French Resistance to fuck shit up ahead of the landings...WWII allied intelligence backroom boys were 1940s shitlords.