Morale for the Americans takes a heavy blow when MacArthur is killed in a kamikaze attack on the command vessel USS "Augusta". Truman orders General Omar Bradley to take MacArthur's role as commander of the invasion and promptly authorizes an atomic bomb to be dropped on the Kanmon Straits, which vaporizes two Japanese infantry divisions attempting to cross into Kyushu. On the homefront in the United States, people begin to protest the invasion and demand an end to the war because of the intensifying kamikaze attacks and the tragic sinking of the RMS "Queen Elizabeth" by a Japanese submarine, which killed over 12,000 American and other Allied soldiers. Meanwhile, because of the extended war, the Soviet Union's campaign in China is more successful, with the Red Army on the verge of taking the entire Korean Peninsula and aiding the Chinese communist forces in their civil war against the Chinese Nationalists.