[DoodleDawg]

The last time a hostile power put a base there at the end of a 6000km supply line, it took 18 months and thousands of casualties to cut them off.

They had a secure supply line stretching the length of the Solomons, through the Philippines and Taiwan, and up to Japan. China doesn't have that.

[rxh4n1]

They had a secure supply line stretching the length of the Solomons, through the Philippines and Taiwan, and up to Japan. China doesn’t have that.

Not quite. They had to sneak in supplies and reinforcements from Rabaul on fast destroyers. Nicknamed the “Tokyo Express”.