Thread: Viewpoints on Douglas MacArthur

Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers

Nimitz's subs is the one who killed the relief convoys to those islands.

ok. thanks for clearing that up. and your right. also Mac used these subs, PT boats and attack aircraft to prevent suppies from reaching Japanese strong holds he bypassed. submarines played a bigger role in this war than they got credit for. before and at the start of the war they were used by Nimitz and Halsey and other surface commanders to scout for Japanese ships. but a new commander named Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood took over COMSUBPAC and convinced washington the submarine was built for only one purporse. sink enemy shipping. he won his case easlily by pointing out what Donitz's Uboats were doing in the Atlantic. so now the subs had a new goal. sink the Japanese Navy. and they came close. their targets were the Mauru's that were taking oil and rubber and other supplies back to the empire. ill put a link in here:
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also the Americans were plagued with a defective torpedo to start the war.
america's silent hunters

victory at sea

navy namvet,

nimitz was the one who cut off the supplies for each island; it was macarthur that just barged ahead, ironically doing the very thing the japanese wanted.

EDIT: never mind, col yu got there before me.

Originally Posted by astralis

navy namvet,

nimitz was the one who cut off the supplies for each island; it was macarthur that just barged ahead, ironically doing the very thing the japanese wanted.

EDIT: never mind, col yu got there before me.

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