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Mike Scholl -> SORRY MOGAMI (11/16/2003 12:09:01 AM)
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[QUOTE=Mogami]Hi, Japan needed to import 7 million tons to run the war economy. If the war is limited to ASW the demand for other resource will be lower. The railnet was already moving the goods to ports for pickup by transports. I don't see my solution adding to it's burden (It just keeps doing what it already was doing)
Remember the whole issue is Gato's forcing Japan to surrender. I'm not saying I can keep everyone fat dumb and happy but I can avoid the need to surrender.
Also I never stopped using the merchant fleet. Only it moves between Korea and Shanghai (short distance and shallow water) with heavy escort and air patrol.
The war scenario is Japan invades and captures SRA and USA response is to build submarines.[/QUOTE]
That figure is PRE-WAR. It was needed to keep the PEACETIME (but already heavily rationed) Japanese functioning. Do you think that War-time needs
for iron, steel, power and the like are going to shrink? The Japanese had
begun national rationing of almost everything up to several years before the
war began---even FOOD was being rationed at not much above starvation
levels by the Spring of 1941. Months before the outbreak of the WITP.
I enjoy your posts and willingness to share information a great deal. But in this
instance your "solution" is a total pipedream that ignores the realities of trans-
porting material in bulk. This is a very simplistic table, but will give some idea
of the relative relationships:
Transport by water is the most effecient method for moving large quantities of
anything. It is ten times as effecient as moving it by rail; which is ten times as
effecient as moving it by road; which is ten times as effecient as moving it by
air. Water is 1000 times more effecient that air for shipping.
I mean, why did the Allies spend all that treasure and manpower building the
"Ledo Connection" to the Burma Road when they were already "flying the Hump"?
Why build the Panama or Suez Canal instead of a much cheaper and faster task
of building a RR? Why build the "Big Inch" Pipeline when RR's and Roads were
already there? You've really "missed the boat" in this instance.
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