Just a thought

a vague idea for a timeline has occured to me:

MacArthur is captured on Bataan, instead of escaping to Australia. At the end of the war, Chester Nimitz is made the Administrator of Japan.


Effects on the Pacific War with no MacArthur?

Who commands in the Southwest Pacific? and how does this shuffle everyone else with a star on his collar?

How would Nimitz be as an administrator of Japan?


If I can figure some of this out, I may put out a timeline
 
MacArthur wanted to take back the Phillipines as a top priority. Nimitz wanted to attack Formosa. I think Formosa would have been easier to conquer, but tactically unfavorable. Less loss of Allied lives, but more risky in the water.
 
Top