The Eastern front against Japan was all the United States except for the very end where the Soviets swept over all of Manchuria and scared the US into using nukes.
Tfw millions of Chinese fighting for liberation did nothing
Tfw the Japanese surrendering immediately after the collapse of the Manchurian occupation by the Soviet Invasion is the US doing the heavy lifting
the defeat of the japanese navy was foundational to all campaign goals against the japanese army, japan is an island and their troops were supplied by sea. it was the largest naval campaign in history supported by the largest shipbuilding initiative in history, and more yankees died there than soviets.
The Chinese at the time were mostly not communists who were fighting and dying. China did tie down a vast amount of Japanese infantry, but I don't think it's fair to discount the United States' role in actually fighting and doing heavy lifting (I should correct though, China did too) in the Eastern front. The Western front without the US would have been even bloodier but it looks like the Soviets would have eked out a win. I don't think that's the case at all in the East without the United States.
Tfw millions of Chinese fighting for liberation did nothing
Tfw the Japanese surrendering immediately after the collapse of the Manchurian occupation by the Soviet Invasion is the US doing the heavy lifting
the defeat of the japanese navy was foundational to all campaign goals against the japanese army, japan is an island and their troops were supplied by sea. it was the largest naval campaign in history supported by the largest shipbuilding initiative in history, and more yankees died there than soviets.
The Chinese at the time were mostly not communists who were fighting and dying. China did tie down a vast amount of Japanese infantry, but I don't think it's fair to discount the United States' role in actually fighting and doing heavy lifting (I should correct though, China did too) in the Eastern front. The Western front without the US would have been even bloodier but it looks like the Soviets would have eked out a win. I don't think that's the case at all in the East without the United States.