World War 2

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Re: World War 2

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My grandad fought the Japanese in Burma, he always felt it was terribly unsporting when you had to gun them down after they ran out of ammunition, because they would come charging out of cover at you with swords and bayonet and knives rather than surrender.

The US pacific campaign was actually a terrible example of how to prosecute a war due to politics rivalries between services and most of all due to MacArthur’s incredible ego. So many american lives were thrown away by MacArthur to capture symbolic places of no tactical value. The man was just lucky… not gifted. His luck ran out in Korea when his incompetence could no longer be covered up by his good fortune.

Mc. can not be discredited with just one go incident. Mc. was either misinformed or even taken by surprise when Japs bombed Philippines and occupied the islands. But there was heavy pressure on him to retake the islands.At first he never wanted to use heavy bombardment in Manila but in the end it turned out to be a street to street fight and a massive destruction to the city took place,which was unavoidable.Remember many Jap commanders chose to defend the garrison till their last breath and thus led to a heavy bloodshed.

As far as Korya is concerned,Had Mc not landed troops in at Inchon the course of history would have been different.Thanks to one of the spectacular amphibious landings the world has ever seen and it was led by Mac. I believe Trueman was concerned abot the popularity Mc was garnering.Indeed Mc’s stand on N-Bombs was well justified ,when the history and the loss of lives in that war are reckoned.