adarbrauner
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Joined: 11/3/2016 From: Zichron Yaaqov, Israel; Before, Treviso, Italy Status: offline
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Good American losses for lessen Japanese's is just plainly good, anywhere. And ceirtanly 20 Liberators down does well contribute. Just, please, try to keep the pace... The 4 IDs from Java, and more than this, I'd have disembarked at Luzon, 3-4 weeks ago. Indeed you're keeping a very successfull delay and defensive action in burma (thailand), but: the Army is taking the risk of simply being completely cutted off; Vietamese coast is simply too long and extended to be guarded. I have no idea regarding the thoughts of Dan, but in my eyes and sensitivity, this may be one with high likeliness. I tend to cut-definite decisions; in this attitude, I'd well consider the retreat of the whole army up to the Vietnamise-Chinese border; I understand though that the region is the gatekeeper and lock to all of the oil and resources, and recent oil operations have proven you right until know; In light of this, I'd consider to split the Burma Army: a part to corck the bottleneck in norther Malay at the latitude of Victoria Point (the problem then would be how to cover all the long coastline down to Singapur from flanking landings, but let Dan tend first to this..) a good part, to the Chinese border, as said, but with some units to keep and hold major important port localities in south and Eastern Vietnam (Kompong Trach, Phnom Phen area, Saigon, Cam rahn, Hue), in an out and everlasting defense. If the Germans kept the Normandy, Brittany, Pais de Calais and Schelde ports until close to the end of the war, why not IJ as well?
< Message edited by adarbrauner -- 3/28/2017 8:32:11 AM >
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