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I’ve just finished Bob Wurth’s “1942: Australia’s Greatest Peril” which has got a number of alternative ideas spinning in my head at the moment.

One interesting thing: After he left the Philippines for Australia, Douglas Macarthur’ aircraft landed in the Northern Territory to refuel.
Ten minutes after his plane departed the airfield was devastated by a Japanese air attack.

If Macarthur had died in the attack who would have been most likely to take over the Southern Command and would he become Supreme Commander in the Pacific?
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