Memorandum for the Chief of Staff: Amplifying Details on Planners' Paper for Presentation to the President. Undated--presumably 17 or possibly 18 June 1945.

Prepared by General Hull after he received the response to his request for casualty figures from various Pacific operations. This is a summary of JCS 1388 for use by General Marshall in briefing the President at the 18 June meeting.

This memo says that having a foothold in Kyushu is “essential to a strategy of strangulation” of Japan. It also says that Japan should, theoretically at least, be willing to surrender when faced with the overwhelming air attacks, an actual U.S. landing in Kyushu, and possibly the entry of the Soviet Union into the war.

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