Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "D.M. Giangreco on the Invasion of Japan, Lend Lease \u0026 much more" video.

  1. Another fine presentation. Gotta love collaborations . . . at least until the occupied zone is "liberated". As a reader, amateur historian, Military History Visualized fanboy, and retired Fighting Artist, I have changed some definitions for my own ease of handling. The Martial Arts: Sanitation, Hygiene, Troop and Specialist Training, Provision of facilities, Transport (road, seaborne, airborne, and railroad, coordination), and Communications (both physical/analog and digital), Espionage. The Arts of War, in other words. As opposed to- The Fighting Arts: Karate, Ju-Jutsu, Tae Kwan Do, Shaolin (and other) Kung Fu, Boxing, Sambo, Sumo, Fencing, booby-trapping, Archery, shooting, et al*. The Arts of fighting. Those are the main changes and well deserved, I think. Here are a few others, just to keep my mind open to new ideas: War: Logistics interrupted by firefights. Logistics: why are you idling about? Lend a hand! Operations: "not without logistics". Morale: "Where is my Penthouse?" Engineering: "Mule: A Racehorse Designed By Committee" *Not forgetting several notable national styles; Indian, Persian, Philippine . . . Thai . . .
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  2. About the fuel situation in Japan . . . even before the war. Japan civil and military aviation needed USA provided additives to raise the octane levels enough to produce aviation fuels. The general embargo meant that they never got any more aviation gasoline until AFTER the war. Japan went to war to obtain oil (and other resources scarce in the Home Islands). There were no considerable stockpiles of av-gas, or naval crude (much easier to obtain than av-gas), meaning there was no fuel to power any organized resistance to invasion. No more kamikazes, no more tanks moving around. All the trains bombed out. And no way to move fuel to its intended destination. No trucks, no rail lines intact, no ships capable of scurrying along the coast to sneak smuggled oil (from where?) to power plants, vehicle parks, or underground cities. Here's another spin on it: https://youtu.be/0mqF2gp7kDY?t=91 That's from the salient point. The whole audiobook style presentation is worth a listen.
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