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Originally Posted by lufttiger
How all so true. I wonder if they had comanders that thought like the
USA comanders, how bad that would have been, ouch.
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That's an interesting "what if" scenario. Would they have evacuated some of the smaller islands that were of little value in order to preserve forces to defend the Philippines and Malaysia? Those were strategic necessities for Japan. What's clear is that they sacrificed lots of young men and boys to defend these islands "to the last man" and in the end it changed nothing, or very little. Sad.