I recently read in "Battles Lost And Won" by Hanson W.Baldwin that before the Battle of Leyte Gulf :

"The Soviet Foriegn Office informed the Ambassador from Japan,represenative of their "ally's enemy," that through diplomatic sources they had learned that the U.S. Fourteenth and Twentieth Army Air Forces,then China-based, had been ordered to make attacks intended to isolate the Phillipines. The U.S. assualt on Leyte came sooner then the Japanese had expected but about where they expected it."

Has anyone else heard of this? I know that The U.S.S.R. planned on attacking Japan after the war in Europe was over and was at that time not at war with Japan. But is this what an "ALLY" is supposed to do?
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I have not heard this...

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All I've found so far,

BREAKING THE CODES
This page is based on a book of D. Ball and D. Parker "Breaking The Codes" published in Australia in 1998 and telling the story of the Soviet espionage in Australia in 1940-50-ties

D. Ball and D. Parker. Breaking the codes

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I do know Japan and the USSR were in diplomatic relations during WW2 until the attack in 1945, but do not know how much they changed information between each other.

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The japanese and the Russians exchanged a few operations at the beginning of ww2 here is a website that someone put infomation on about the incidents if you are interested and I remember something about russia invading Japan after the defeat of Germany but cant place where I say it, I think it is in one of my books I will have to go through them and see. I do know how ever that russia did have plans to invade the northern island of Japan but the Americans beat them with the bomb and the surrender of Japan. Well here is that website I'll try and find something to veryfi it.

Khalkhin-Gol: The forgotten battle that shaped WW2*|*Siberian Light

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I just verified the information from 'The Oxford Companion to Military History' one of my books the battle is known not only as Khalkin-Gol but also as the battle of Nomonhan.

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Here is an excellent read about it.

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resour...rea2/drea2.asp

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You might also like to check out the other threads Ive created where I posted info on the operations between Japan and the Soviets in 1945 .

Project HULA: Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan

Project HULA: Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan

Soviet Naval Aerial Kills in August 1945

Soviet Naval Aerial Kills in August 1945

Soviet Japan

Soviet Japan

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