MacArtur's finest hour was at Inchon. He was merely mediocre in WWII. The PI campaign was totally unnecessary.
Good point, indeed.
MacArthur went up New guinea to the Phillipines. Halsey moved up the Solomons. MacArthur had nothing to do with the Solomons campaign.
Montgomery was way overrated. So was MacArthur to a lesser extent. Mac actually hindered efforts in the Pacific. The Phillipines should have been...
I believe they could have been succesful immediatley after the Pearl Harbor debacle. We were at our weakest at that point. By the time Midway came...
What a bunch of idiots. Dang.
Japan was much more brutal than the Germans. The Germans adhered to the geneva convention for the most part. Japan did not. They were fanatical in...
At that point in the war Japan had control of the dutch east indies, burma and indochina. IMO, they could have taken the hawaiian islands...
Well said.
Japan had the momentum and could have easily taken the Hawaiian islands. They would have been foolish to attempt to invade the mainland. They...
I believe it is less popular because the European theater included so many different countries. The war in the pacific was mainly the US and...
F4U Corsair Hands down the baddest ass fighter of the war.
I was thinking of the night battles of Savo island on 8/9/42. We did win the battle of the eastern solomons. "The Battle of the Eastern Solomons...
I believe IJN technically "won" the night battles of 8/42. Overall they sunk more of our capitol ships in iron bottom sound.
Thanks for the info. I can tell from my reading thus far that there is knowledge aplenty on this forum.
Thank you sniper. Glad to be a member here.
Day of Deceit", by Robert Stinnet. Chock ful of recently declassified documents. A must read. below is a link to the book online. Day of...
The amercan people had been reading about the Jap actrocities since 1931 when they invaded Manchuria. And then later in 1937 during the "Rape of...
I'm a newbie. What does one have to do in order to be able to post on the "Sacred cows and dead horses", forum?
I just finished "Day of Deciet" by Stinnet. Awesome book. I couldn't put it down. I finished up about the same time "Flags of our Fathers", which...
