MacArthur's campaign to retake the country has begun.

He had the Army Signal Corps of Engineers go ahead on the beach ahead of him, so by the time he got there, he gives his radio address.

This war will not end until there is actually an invasion of the home islands.

Churchill and Roosevelt are in Malta on the way to Yalta early in 1945, and this is where Operation Downfall first crystallizes, an invasion of Japan.

The sense is that after the war in Europe would be over and all of the resources, all the men, all the equipment that they could muster would be transferred into the Far East theater for a massive, massive operation, the kind of which history has never seen before.