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6: Pacific theater, 1943
At first, sorry for postponing the Palestine bit for at least another posting. It's a difficult story... sometimes my cursor doesn't want to write the words down...

During the winter, lots of Lend-Lease material is brought to Russia. The situation is urgent - not everyone knows it, but Russia is close to state bankruptcy - in fact, later in history people will find out that breakdown was as close as a few weeks, hadn't there been Lend-Lease.

Until June, American troops have brought all of Bengal under their control. Unfortunately, now the monsoon begins and stops all operations on this front. This means unfortunately that China is cut off from Allied help. Meanwhile, however, the GIs fight together with Australians and New Zealanders to island-hop in the Pacific. Until the end of the year, they conquer New Guinea, the Salomon Islands incl. Guadalcanal, New Britain, Gilbert Islands, Admirality Islands and Eniwetok back.

When the monsoon is over in October, US troops start an offensive in Burma. Since they're not at war with Germany, the Allies have more troops on every front in the Pacific theater. While America supplies the Chinese via the hump, the Ledo Road in North Burma is built, after an offensive gave parts of North burma in the GIs' hands.

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