Tinian and Saipan, 1944 aboard the USS Albert W Grant, after the capture. The Japanese forced tens of thousands of their country men, women and children, over the cliffs into the rocks to avoid capture.
Revisionism in history may make those historian feel better but it flies in the face of the facts. Having interviewed dozens of veterans from that period, the one quote that stuck in my mind was that on the announcement of the surrender of Japan aboard ship, the men just wept ... the certainty of a future death on the shores of Japan were swept away.
Reality, facts, and the truth have a strange way of getting in the middle of the dreams of the revisionists.
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