WI: US Pacific Fleet was based in the Phillipines.

After the defeat of the 'through-ticket' faction in the Navy in 20's, never going to happen. After that the entire structure of the USN was based on island jumping strategies and PI were considered expandable. There is very little one can do to change this. I'd suggest reading "War Plan: Orange". And also this.
 
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Mac should have been sent into the line on Bataan, but given his service as army chief of staff and department commander, my supposition is he knew too much about the crypto at CAST.

Best,

Certainly he deserved the Admiral Bing treatment much more than Bing did.
 
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