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Say the Japanese capture Midway WITHOUT a major naval battle, just steam up, hammer the defences and take the place while the US Carrier fleet is off somewhere else. Intelligence didn't work out what was really going on.

Now they have to defend the blasted place,:eek: a long way from other Japanese bases but comparatively close to the US Pacific fleet base at Pearl Harbour.:cool:

This would be a version of Guadalcanal, but with the positions of the US and Japan reversed. A long grinding war of attrition with a beleagured garision starving at the end of a precarious supply line and the whole nasty business vacuuming up resources of all kinds Japan really can't afford to lose.:(

Or would it?

Your thoughts ladies and gentlemice?
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