Por otro lado, insisto en que los intereses americanos en el Pacífico condenaba a la guerra a los EEUU y a Japón, de una forma o de otra.
El embargo americano no dejaba otra opción, salvo la retirada de China claro.
Saludos.
Por otro lado, insisto en que los intereses americanos en el Pacífico condenaba a la guerra a los EEUU y a Japón, de una forma o de otra.
serguiopl escribió:Eriol... pues a mi me ha decepcionado con lo de Ceilán... una operación con verdadero espíritu "samjohnsiano" sería invadir, en Diciembre de 1941, Madagascar y Hawaii al mismo tiempo. O aquel plan para ocupar los EEUU...
Von Kleist escribió:Yo aun estoy flipando con aquello de que con el apoyo de los biplanos Hs-123 Guderian se habría plantado en Moscú, pero en fin, aguardemos sus doctas y documentadas respuestas, porque la cosa realmente promete.
2/21st Battalion
The 2/21st Infantry Battalion, part of the 23rd Brigade of the 8th Division, began assembling at Trawool in central Victoria on 11 July 1940. Approximately half the recruits were from Melbourne and the rest from rural Victoria. Training was conducted at Trawool until 23 September when the battalion began to move to Bonegilla, near Wodonga on the New South Wales-Victoria border. It made the 235 km journey on foot, arriving on 4 October. Training soon resumed and occupied the battalion until it commenced another move on 23 March 1941 for Darwin in the Northern Territory. It had been earmarked to reinforce Dutch troops on the island of Ambon in the event of a Japanese attack. Although military sense dictated the battalion should be deployed as early as possible, to prepare defences and train in the conditions in which it would fight, it was thought a premature deployment may provoke Japanese action. Thus, the battalion would be held in Darwin until Japan’s intentions were clear
El embargo americano no dejaba otra opción, salvo la retirada de China claro.
Gracias por la siempre valiosa y condiable información Urquhart. Gaullistas o Vichistas los Francoasutralianos en NC tiene pocas probablilidades contra bombas y obuses y sin suministros.
New Caledonia is a French colony and was controlled by the Free French during the Pacific War. The political situation in New Caledonia was tense when war broke out in the Pacific. De Gaulle, leader of the Free French movement, sent Rear Admiral D'Argenlieu to the island early in 1942 to replace a popular governor whose loyalty was suspect, but there was enough pro-Axis feeling among the islanders that there was real danger of a counterrevolution. Reports on Allied activities quickly found their way to the Japanese.
The garrison when war broke out consisted of a single 800-man battalion of French troops. This was joined by a hastily raised 2000-man Home Guard formation and by a 300-man company of Australian troops shortly after war broke out, but this was pitifully inadequate for such a large and valuable island. The French actually considered putting a stop to the construction of a large airfield by the Australians in the vain hope that this would make the island less attractive to the Japanese (who had already made plans for South Seas Detachment to move on the island.) A garrison of about 16,800 U.S. troops, built around 51 Brigade and 70 Coast Artillery Regiment (Antiaircraft), was organized into Task Force 6814 and arrived at the island on 12 March 1942. There they were joined by 67 Fighter Squadron. The troops later formed the core of the Americal Division.
Numerous airfields were completed around the island, of which the most important were Tontouta 33 miles (53 km) north of Noumea, which had two runways when war broke out, and Oua Tom north of Tontouta, which had a single runway operational. A third airfield at Koumac at the northwest end of the island was destroyed to prevent its being used by the Japanese; it would later be rebuilt by the U.S. Army. Another airfield was under construction at Plaine de Gaics (164.87E 21.22S) and seven auxiliary airstrips would be completed during the war.
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