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Originally Posted by strelkovaya
If the US lost all their Island possessions, how would they deliver the bomb to Japan? Especially considering Japan would have a wall of fighter cover along the west coast (constant bombing raids against the west coast). If Japan did that chances are Japan could get peace in which the US had to lift their embargo and hand over some Islands.
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They probably could never had achieved such a thing, but why would American lift its embargo just becuase all the pacific islands, and say Australia was captured?
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There was no way Japan would invade the US mainland and that was never their intention in the first place. Japan wanted the US to give up some strategically important Islands, the Phillipines and most importantly lift the oil embargo. The bombing would be intended just to keep all shipyards on the west coast non-operational as part of denying them all access to the pacific, as well as some terror-bombing to make them more willing to negotiate. IF the US saw it had was now in a position of stalemate and their people were being bombed, chances are they would be more willing to negotiate peace. The only major problem I can see is Japan maintaining it's air superiority over the US west coast. The navy was the most important branch of the military in the pacific front. They were more vital to the war than the marines, who were a small, highly specialised branch of the army used for amphibious assaults. The navy and the merchant marine were the key factor in winning the war.
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How would Japan bomb America? it is out of the combat range of any real bombers capable of delivering enough damage to even make them think twice, and out of the effective range of any surface ships, which would never be allowed to travel that far due to the fact that they would all be sunk by the americans both at Midway but also Peral Harbour and any ships and aircraft left on the west coast.
I still don;t understand why the Americans would seek for peace just becuase they were bombed, please explain?
The Marines were a much larger force then "small", but yes they were ampbhious troops, based on the fact that they were need in that type of island war.
I don't think any one area of any branch of any army/navy, or the air force can single handed win a war. The Navy and the merchant marines bwing the key factor? without the Marines the Navy in enemy territory would be demolished by the Japanese, so in reality they Marines are need to take and hold these islands, only in a combined effort can a war both be waged and finally won, not singlely.