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In Reply to: RE: Darwin 1942 posted by FenderLover on March 12, 2017 at 05:38:24
And by that time they'd already begun cutting back on their plans. Viz.
Restricting themselves to capturing the whole island of New Guinea, which would have allowed them to interdict supplies from the USA to Australia.
Taking Australia which had been in their plans, as an 'if necessary,' was by then dropped, but at IJN insistence.
The vast bulk of their army stayed in China and Manchuria until 1945. Where the Russians whipped them, in a few weeks.
They caught 'victory disease' in China before WWII began in Europe.
They - their two services commands - didn't know they had V.D. - until Midway, after Darwin. But even then the crews and the soldiers in the Pacific were threatened / cajoled - Kempei Tai? - not to tell their folks back home what had happened at Coral Sea and Midway.
Don't see much evidence of cultural change within Japan even now.
People either don't know, or forget, that two* large carriers went back to Japan as a result of the battle of the Coral Sea, one because its aircrew had gone, the other because it was so badly damaged. That battle was not a draw.
Yorktown was patched up in time for Midway.
Several RAN ships were at the Coral Sea battle.
Further? The cryptanalysis that allowed the USN's 3 carriers to ambush the IJN's 4 carriers at Midway (but not 6*). Was a joint, allied achievement, Australia's Army cryptanalysis team and its navy's the RAN, played a critical role, along with Friedman's team at Pearl.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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