"Details of the Campaign Against Japan." JPS 697/D, 14 June 1945.

“This memorandum from Admiral Leahy set up the 18 June meeting with President Truman that would review plans for bringing the war with Japan to an end. It was forwarded to the Joint Planning Staff (JPS), which directed the Joint War Plans Committee (JWPC) to draft a response. On the document's distribution list, four of the ten names are those of members of the Joint Planning Staff--two Army and two Navy officers. One of these Army representatives, Brig. Gen. Charles Cabell, was an Army Air Force (the Air Force was then part of the US Army) officer who would later go on to serve as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. Two other members of the JPS--Rear Adm. B.H. Bieri and Brig. Gen. J.E. Hull, the Army's Chief of Plans--were de facto co-chairmen of the JWPC.”

The President wants to know just how many men and ships will be needed to defeat Japan, how long it will take, and what the casualties will be if Japan itself was invaded. He also wanted to know how long it would take to defeat Japan, and what the losses would be, if we kept to a plan of isolation, blockade, and bombardment, but no direct invasion of the home islands.

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