Americans Had Unmasked Main Japanese Striking Force And Stripped It Of Three Heavy Cruisers (Ep.19)

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(Memoirs Of Pacific War Series, Part 19) “Americans Had Unmasked The Main Japanese Striking Force And Stripped It Of Three Heavy Cruisers”

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5 thoughts on “Americans Had Unmasked Main Japanese Striking Force And Stripped It Of Three Heavy Cruisers (Ep.19)”

  1. There were many arguments to be made for the Philippines being a better axis of attack, not the least of which was the Filipino network of some 30,000 guerillas in place to disrupt the Japanese defensive effort and help facilitate the landings. Imo, King's stubborn insistence on Formosa was at least in part due to the fact that the Philippines plan was MacArthur's plan. Formosa would have been a very tough nut to crack and was not really an amphibious operation beyond the initial beach invasion, and much more an army type operation. Absent a MacArthur at all, it still made more military sense to liberate the Philippines first, due to the large garrison and considerable air power based there.

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  3. Yes, Formosa was a mistake by King, but understandable given that the next step was a Chinese mainland campaign pushing north to give the US forward airbases for the bombing campaign on Japan.
    Plans change. Despite MacArthur, The Philippines made better sense in support of a central Pacific thrust to Iwo and Okinawa.

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