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Originally Posted by Sauf
I undertand your thinking, but some other countries had been fighting the war for 2 years before America was involved, are we just to ignore that? TBH I couldnt give a flying f*#k if the pacific is ignored, apparently we aussies did stuff all there anyway! MacArthur was a turd and Blamey was his dung beetle and us Aussies suffered for it. Give me the Med anytime, pity Australia hasn't got the whining power of the USA.
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Give me a P40 and a detailed New Guinea, SW Pacific map up through Dutch East Indies and the Celebees and as an Australian I'ld be as happy as a pig in brown stuff. Personally Im happy to wait a couple of years before our PC's have a hope of handling all the palm trees and shipping.
As an aside to our US brothers in arms, MacArthur has a fairly bad reputation over here for the way he conducted the New Guinea campaign. This in no way reflects apon the US servicemen that fought alongside the Australian troops.
After years of fighting up the north coast of NG many Australian servicemen were put out due to MacArthurs desire for making the retaking of the Philipines an American only event.
Many of our servicemen thought they were being waisted on costly mopping up opperations that had no strategic value to the war effort.
Cheers