Posted by Bill(Wis) on December 17, 2013 at 07:13:48 from (24.161.29.205):
In Reply to: Re: Breakthrough! posted by Ultradog MN on December 16, 2013 at 16:00:35:
First major victory in the Pacific (Theatre of the Southwest Pacific-MacArthur) was the fall of Buna. (2 Jan, '43. Completely finished on 22 Jan '43) Guadalcanal (in the Pacific Theatre-Nimitz) came next on 7 Feb, '43 but if you listened to Marine "Historty" you'd think that was the only battle going on in that part of the world. In fact, US Army XIV Corps forced the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal. But, Buna came first. From then on, US Marine casualties were very high due to the way Nimitz conducted the fighting in his Theatre. MacArthur, on the other hand used the motto "Hit 'em where they ain't" and "Starvation is my Ally". MacArthur spared thousands upon thousands of US casualties with his very skillful and effective employment of force. 400 mile thrusts which left hundreds of thousands of Japanese cut off and abandoned. Did you know that MacArthur was to be the Supreme Commander for the invasion of Japan, scheduled to begin 1 Nov, 45 with the final assault on or about 1 March, '46? That would have been some show. Luckily, it wasn't necessary.
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