# Seventy Years Ago Today.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 6, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seventy-years-ago-today/727154 "2015-08-06T14:10:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seventy-years-ago-today/727154/17 "2015-08-07T16:56:25Z")
Extrapolating from the percentage of the total population which died during the invasions of Saipan and Okinawa, something like six million Japanese would have died if the Allies invaded their homeland. Many of them at their own hands. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seventy-years-ago-today/727154)._