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Now imagine this. We finally have the fleet assembled in Spring 1946, we can finally do this. We're going to lose probably 1/3 - 1/2 of our troops because of the way the Japanese fight. But we're ready to go. Now imagine almost all of our fighters from our air craft carriers getting shot down. Now imagine a large majority of our ships being sunk. Now imagine looking in the sky and seeing a huge air force of jet fighters flying under the red sun. See, the Japanese might have had bad guns and horrible fighting techniques, but they're masters at building. They created a jet engine from one, ONE photograph of a german jet engine that Hitler sent in the middle of the war. The Japanese used it to build a giant fleet of jet fighters hiding in the mountains of Japan with places to take-off and land drilled right into the cave.
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I'm imagining it, too bad it wasn't what happened. We had already bombed the hell out of Japan, destroying most of their major cities. In fact, the March 9-10 raids on tokyo killed 100,000 people. Your idea about "all our fighters being shot down" is ridiculous, we were successfully bombing the hell out of japan for months when we dropped the atomic bomb.
After dropping Little Boy, we dropped Fat Man just for show. Japan was already in surrender negotiations and there was no need to roast anyone else.
You're right, ignorance *is* one of the worst things in people, and, as they say, people who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.