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When the American troops invaded Okinawa, the individual Japanese soldiers and civilians would not surrender, even when completely surrounded and out numbered. Surrender was culturally dishonorable and the Japanese had been told by their leadership that if they did surrender the Americans would kill them anyway. Almost all the Japanese died and the United States forces had an astoundingly high casualty rate—37%. Truman was fearful that there might be hundreds of thousands American casualties in the subduing of the Japanese mainland. The atomic bomb solved that problem.
The manpower shortage was really strained as most young men were in military service. Factories all over America were expanding to meet the wartime production goals. The Sexism that had permeated the offices and factories before the war gave way to necessity, and men and women alike were relocating to where the critical jobs were. Housing was a serious problem and the government set up housing bureaus which would provide housing services at no charge to new workers. There were some conservatives who did not want the government in the Real Estate Brokerage business, but by and large these were accepted. After the war, the government went out of the business, and real estate was again exclusively in the private sector.
