Logistical Problems Almost Sank Imperial Japan's Pacific Ambitions
How do you supply bases across a vast ocean while under enemy fire? Here's What You Need To Remember: The Type 4 completed testing in March 1944 and was accepted into service. But by then, the IJN was looking to use the Type 4 offensively as it grew clear the Japanese home islands would soon come under attack. Imperial Japan faced a vexing dilemma in World War II: it had military bases sprawling across far-flung Pacific islands from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea to the Attu and Kiska islands near Alaska. But the merchant ships necessary to supply, reinforce and especially feed those garri...
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