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Downfall (2009)

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Here's a new custom TNO event! This time showing the hypothetical Operation Downfall: the US/OFN's direct involvement in the Great Asian War.

In OTL, Operation Downfall was the name for the planned American invasion of Japan, which would have among others, involved using atomic bombs to clear beachheads and potentially millions of deaths on both sides. In TNO, this would play out initially like a mix of the Pacific War's island hopping and the Vietnam War...before it escalates to the brink of nuclear oblivion. Unless this is completed quickly, it's not hard to see how this ends.

For some trivia, the clips are mix of Vietnam-era footage and a 1970s Department of Defense film on US assets in Taiwan ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBgl9ac7WQ ). The snippet at the end is from a 1985 interview with Curtis LeMay himself, ironically in a UC Irving program titled "Quest for Peace" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTlbhcksugk ).

...And yes, the music is the first part of "The Storm" from the Violet Evergarden OST ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zMhOKpu15k ). Which coincidentally is a nod to an earlier custom event about the Morgenthau Plan, which used the last portions of it.

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