{"id":6373,"date":"2017-07-14T19:32:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T01:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2017-07-14T19:32:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T01:32:59","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-9-15-july-1945-preparing-to-invade-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6373","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 9&#8211;15 July 1945: Preparing to invade Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6372\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?attachment_id=6372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6372\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6372\" src=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WItaly92ndInfantryDivision-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WItaly92ndInfantryDivision-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WItaly92ndInfantryDivision-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WItaly92ndInfantryDivision.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troops of the US 92nd Infantry (&#8216;Buffalo&#8217;) Division, Italy 1945 [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 15 July 1945, the first contingent of American troops\u00a0that had been serving in Europe boarded their ship in Naples, Italy, and set sail for Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The invasion of the Japanese\u00a0homeland had been set for 1 November.<\/p>\n<p>American warships had already been bombarding the Japanese mainland as a preparation, and the Japanese were making preparations of their own by training thousands of men for kamikaze air and sea attacks against Allied shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the war, on 15 July 1945, the first contingent of American troops\u00a0that had been serving in Europe boarded their ship in Naples, Italy, and set sail for Japan. The invasion of the Japanese\u00a0homeland had been set for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1105,1104],"class_list":["post-6373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-invasion-of-japan","tag-kamikaze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions\/6374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}