The Pacific War by Daniel Marston

Author:Daniel Marston
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849087261
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2017-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

UNNECESSARY CAMPAIGNS?

Following the end of the Luzon campaign, the Sixth Army began to prepare for the invasion of Japan. Meanwhile, the Eighth Army undertook a series of amphibious operations throughout the southern Philippines to eliminate large pockets of Japanese. These operations helped liberate extensive areas, but did not contribute directly to the defeat of Japan.

The same criticism can be leveled at the Australian Army's campaigns in Bougainville and New Guinea in 1945. MacArthur was, at best, lukewarm about the justification for these offensives, but he enthusiastically ordered the 1st Australian Corps to conduct operations in Borneo.There was even less justification for these later operations, as once Central Pacific forces landed at Okinawa on April 1, 1945, all campaigns to the south were strategically irrelevant.

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