Comments by "calvingreene90" (@calvingreene90) on "Admiral Chester Nimitz - Master of the Pacific" video.

  1. MacArthur will certainly smart enough to come to the conclusion that there was under no circumstances he was going to be given a Fleet Carrier could have leaked his intent to take Rabaul both to remind the people that the Philippines had been under supported and to explain his not being as successful as he believed he should have been.
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  2.  @razorburn645  Well so, when it's not actually his fault...
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  3.  @razorburn645  MacArthur gave a date in spring 42 when the Philippines would be secure. If instead of giving the priority to the war in Europe it would have been given to the war in the Pacific it is probable the Philippines would never have fallen. But all things considered despite being the wrong strategic decision Europe first was the moral decision.
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  4.  @razorburn645  And somebody told you that you are intelligent; that doesn't make it true. There were other theaters in the Pacific but none of them are between the Japanese home islands and the oil their war machine required. You hate MacArthur; no problem none of my analysis based on his self-aggrandizing.
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  5.  @razorburn645  The obsolete battleships taken off the board. The Atlantic fleet that could have run the Mediterranean taken the Suez Canal or have gone around Africa and reinforced from the west. The carrier force sent to raid backwaters. All the supplies sent to England. You mindlessly hate MacArthur and will not consider any possibility that he was not at fault. MacArthur gave Truman the choice fight to win or fire me. Truman chose to not win.
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  6.  @razorburn645  You forget where the convoys that got mauled were going. There was a big difference between going to Suez and Malta. The USofA Navy was short on fast fleet oilers not oilers in general. Russia lacked the nukes to start WWIII in the early 1950s. Truman was an idiot. I already told you my analysis isn't based on MacArthur's writings.
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  7.  @razorburn645  The straw man argument. First slow oilers were as fast as the average cargo ship of the day. And second the fleet oilers make going around Africa with a battlefleet practical. The USofA 5inch38 duel purpose gun would come as a very nasty surprise to the German and Italian Air Forces. Wanting to move cargo through the Mediterranean we would put a big Air Force in Egypt and the USofA Army would start getting serious battle experience in Libya before launching a major amphibious assault.
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  8.  @razorburn645  What is clear is that you will not accept any possibility of any other plan working and that you mindlessly hate MacArthur. Sending a battlefleet through the Mediterranean doesn't require the fleet oilers. Believe what you want but the Europe first plan was FDR Supporting Churchill over American interest but ultimately the right choice because of the Holocaust.
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  9.  @razorburn645  Not reality.
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