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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.
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.
I completely agree there, in fact I said it in my first post on this thread. I was just saying this is the absolute minimum Japan would have to achieve in order to have any chance at peace. I agree that it's completely implausible which is pretty much my first point of Japan was doomed from the start.
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I don't know where to start with this. But here goes. Im not attacking you but explain some of this. After the attack on Pearl Harbor there was no longer an embargo on oil was there? The only way Japan would have had peace is only if they had never attacked the US in the first place. No amount of lost islands would blunt the determination to get revenge and punish the Japanese. It would have taken longer to defeat the Japanese. But it would still have happened. And please tell us.Where pray tell would all the USAAC,US Navy and US Marine Corps fighter and bomber squadrons be? And what would they be doing while the Japanese are busy bombing and raiding the West Coast? And where would this " wall of fighter cover along the west coast " come from? The Japanese Carriers? And how many fighters would that be? Do you seriously think that the total landbased airforce contingents combined of the USAAC,Navy,and Marines,not to mention the US naval forces and AA units would stand idly by while the Japanese launched air attacks on the West Coast? And just to point out too that not all the shipyards and aircraft factories were on the West Coast. Most were on the East Coast. And how would bombing the ones on the West Coast deny the US Navy access to the Pacific? And as to the Marines they were not part of the Army but of the Navy.