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Southeast Asia
Japanese Invasion of Malaya
2021-12-10
Posted by:badanov

#3  This theater at time line soundly re-buffs the 'FDR Let It Happen' invention; that is FDR also hosed over the British (Singapore) and the Dutch and the American SW Pacific Fleet and all these resources, and a number of Australian assets.

Ship of Ghosts, Hornfischer - good read.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-12-10 12:04  

#2  Mac tossed War Plan Orange and sent an untrained Philippine army to 'fight them on the landing beaches' losing two weeks of moving men and materials to Bataan, not to mention that even with a clear warning left his air assets sitting in one spot to be bombed out of effectiveness in the subsequent battle. - cite

Even with such incompetence and dealing with literally chaos in situation, the army was able to grind down the Japanese into a stalemate by February. It took the reinforcement with those troops released from the Malaysian campaign to launch another systematic attack in April to overrun the defenders who by that time barely could operate because of disease and malnutrition.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-12-10 10:23  

#1  Is this what War Plan Orange failed to deal with?
Posted by: Mercutio   2021-12-10 08:50  

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