Officers..The Bridge at Remagen

"Keith Willshaw" writes:

Throughout
Pacific war, Japanese managed to fight far more stubbornly without air
cover.


Stubbornly yes, intelligently no. By 1944 the weaknesses of the
Japanese fighting methods was well understood and they took
horrible casualties to little effect.

It does boggle the mind rather, doesn't it. I believe it was only in
late 1944, at Palau (do I have that right? The unnecessary invasion?)
that the Japanese commander managed to persuade GHQ to allow him to
fight a guerilla battle rather than suicide charges - in order to
prolong resistance for as long as possible. This became the accepted
way to fight after that, despite suicide charges carried out at times
after that. All in all though, a great waste of life on mostly the
Japanese side.

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G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan