13.09.2008, 20:18
About Typhoon Louise:
"Louise was first seen developing on October 2 in the Caroline Islands. It unexpectedly veered north and slowed down, only to intensify as it passed over Okinawa with 90 mph wind gusts and a minimum central pressure of 968.5 mbar. Shortly after, Louise began to weaken, and hit Japan as a strong tropical storm. The tropical cyclone became extratropical shortly after on October 12. In Okinawa, 36 people died, 47 people were reported missing, and 100 people were seriously injured. In Buckner Bay, 30-35 waves were reported to have crashed ashore, tearing into the Quonset huts and other building. 12 ships were sunk, 222 ships were grounded, and another 32 were severely damaged. 80% of the buildings in the bay were completely wiped out while all 60 airplanes at the local airports were damaged, but most were repairable. 107 amphibious craft (including the wrecking of four tank landing ships, two medium landing ships, a gunboat, and two infantry landing craft) were grounded and damaged.[3]
Here is a quote from an interesting article from here: http://www.combatsim.com/review.php?id=721
"Now we must realize that most likely the first offensive invasion action against Japan would have been postponed to spring of 1946 after regrouping from Typhoon Louise. Given this additional time to prepare and manufacture here is some of the hardware that would have shown up in Ketsu-go, the name of the defensive operation"
The last, and most important article is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
"Louise was first seen developing on October 2 in the Caroline Islands. It unexpectedly veered north and slowed down, only to intensify as it passed over Okinawa with 90 mph wind gusts and a minimum central pressure of 968.5 mbar. Shortly after, Louise began to weaken, and hit Japan as a strong tropical storm. The tropical cyclone became extratropical shortly after on October 12. In Okinawa, 36 people died, 47 people were reported missing, and 100 people were seriously injured. In Buckner Bay, 30-35 waves were reported to have crashed ashore, tearing into the Quonset huts and other building. 12 ships were sunk, 222 ships were grounded, and another 32 were severely damaged. 80% of the buildings in the bay were completely wiped out while all 60 airplanes at the local airports were damaged, but most were repairable. 107 amphibious craft (including the wrecking of four tank landing ships, two medium landing ships, a gunboat, and two infantry landing craft) were grounded and damaged.[3]
Here is a quote from an interesting article from here: http://www.combatsim.com/review.php?id=721
"Now we must realize that most likely the first offensive invasion action against Japan would have been postponed to spring of 1946 after regrouping from Typhoon Louise. Given this additional time to prepare and manufacture here is some of the hardware that would have shown up in Ketsu-go, the name of the defensive operation"
The last, and most important article is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall