1946年12月參與研製美國原子彈的核物理科學家、

  麻省理工學院院長 Karl Taylor Compton 

  ( 1945年9月走訪東京麥克阿瑟將軍的美軍司令部

  之後 ）撰文披露至死陶醉在日本軍部大內宣的

  大和民族民眾是怎樣在1945年2月19日 - 6月21日

  硫磺島、沖繩島兩大戰役戰敗之後，

  依然不忘初心 滿滿正能量地堅信不疑：

  那是我戰無不勝的大日本皇軍誘敵深入，

  以便把邪惡美軍吸引到國土上全部殲滅！

           右二：本文作者 ( 1887 - 1954 )

We gained a vivid insight into the state of knowledge and

 morale of the ordinary Japanese soldier from a young

 private who had served through the war in the Japanese

 Army. He had lived since babyhood in America, and had

 graduated in 1940 from Massachusetts Institute of

 Technology. This lad, thoroughly American in outlook, 

had gone with his family to visit relatives shortly after his

 graduation. They were caught in the mobilization and he

 was drafted into the Army.

我們從一個在日本陸軍戰爭中服役的年輕小伙子那裡，深入了解

了普通日本士兵的知識和士氣。他從嬰兒時代起就生活在美國，

並於1940年畢業於麻省理工學院。這個小伙子的外觀感覺完全

是個美國人，畢業後不久就和家人一起去探親，結果他們被捲入

徵兵動員中，他被徵召入伍。

This young Japanese told us that all his fellow soldiers

 believed that Japan was winning the war. To them the

 losses of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were parts of a grand

 strategy to lure the American forces closer and closer to

 the homeland, until they could be pounced upon and

 utterly annihilated. He himself had come to have some

 doubts as a result of various inconsistencies in official

 reports. Also he had seen the Ford assembly line in

 operation and knew that Japan could not match America

 in war production. But none of the soldiers had any 

inkling of the true situation until one night, at ten-thirty,

 his regiment was called to hear the reading of the

 surrender proclamation.

這個年輕的日本人告訴我們，他所有的同胞都認為日本正在贏得

戰爭。對他們來說，硫磺島和沖繩的損失是誘使美軍越來越接近

祖國的大戰略的一部分，直到它們被猛烈襲擊並徹底殲滅。由於

官方報告中的各種不一致，他本人也對此產生了懷疑。他還看到

了福特的裝配生產線，並且知道日本在戰爭生產方面無法與美國

匹敵。但是直到那一夜十點三十分聆聽天皇宣告投降之前，沒有

一個士兵知道戰爭真實的情況。

  December 1946 Issue

https://www.theatlantic.com/maga

zine/archive/1946/12/if-the-atomic-

bomb-had-not-been-used/376238/

     誘敵深入國土 全殲入侵美軍

             的 Foreplay 前戲  

              —— 沖繩島戰役