Re Japanese tenacity?
That’s a good question. IJA forces were willing to retreat when ordered to do so but its going to take a high HQ (Army or better ) to order it and I can’t see that.
Tactically how aggressive will the IJA defence be? They are not at the ‘if we get out of the bunkers we will get mowed down by allied firepower stage’ yet so they may indulge in some very wasting local counterattacks. This is not the planned dig in and die situation of the pacific islands, not to say that isolated groups or rearguards wont but they will not have benefited from stockpiling ammo and food/water in a lot of fixed mutually supporting positions to make this as wearing as it was for the USMC.
Operationally they may have a problem in responding to any allied break in, which is pretty much guaranteed with the amount of armour/artillery the CW can deploy.
If they do try and retreat they are dead in short order. Where they are is probably the best defensive geography till Vietnam once out of the ‘rugged’ border regions they are walking in the face of motorized (or large parts of it can be) army which is not is good prospect across pretty open ground.
Astro did you mean Combined CoS proposing Mac- if so presumably the Brit half of it was laughing so hard they could not speak even to say ‘no’ or was the ‘you’re doolali mate’ mistranslated.
Does this mean Mac is the original man from Del Monte?
That’s a good question. IJA forces were willing to retreat when ordered to do so but its going to take a high HQ (Army or better ) to order it and I can’t see that.
Tactically how aggressive will the IJA defence be? They are not at the ‘if we get out of the bunkers we will get mowed down by allied firepower stage’ yet so they may indulge in some very wasting local counterattacks. This is not the planned dig in and die situation of the pacific islands, not to say that isolated groups or rearguards wont but they will not have benefited from stockpiling ammo and food/water in a lot of fixed mutually supporting positions to make this as wearing as it was for the USMC.
Operationally they may have a problem in responding to any allied break in, which is pretty much guaranteed with the amount of armour/artillery the CW can deploy.
If they do try and retreat they are dead in short order. Where they are is probably the best defensive geography till Vietnam once out of the ‘rugged’ border regions they are walking in the face of motorized (or large parts of it can be) army which is not is good prospect across pretty open ground.
Astro did you mean Combined CoS proposing Mac- if so presumably the Brit half of it was laughing so hard they could not speak even to say ‘no’ or was the ‘you’re doolali mate’ mistranslated.
Does this mean Mac is the original man from Del Monte?