Posted on 01/01/2015 4:22:41 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Your explanation obviously is the correct one.
I see the Japanese are predicting that the fight for Luzon will be “the decisive battle that will decide the fate of the war.” By my rough count this will be either the 4th or 5th such “decisive battle,” and the Japanese have lost them all, and badly.
You’d think they would learn to not hype these things so much.
War-time rationing. It was written at the end of December and they'd already used up all their PMRCs* for the month.
*Punctuation Mark Ration Card
LOL! I can just see reporters trading them around like Scrabble tiles. “Who has a dash? I used mine on the 15th. I’ll trade two apostrophes and a close-quote!”
Bring on the decisive battle!
Well, so much for Ike’s certainty that Devers had to abandon his forward positions and Strasbourg to have any hope of stopping the German offensive.
Lol!
Tis but a scratch...I’ve had worse.
I don’t know whether Ike was a bit panicked or whether he just didn’t have confidence in Devers.
The American superiority in logistics showed up in the ability of the American Artillery to out shoot the Germans by about a 5 to 1 ratio.
The Germans were using about 1,500 tons of ammo a day and could have used quite a bit more. The US Third Army was using 3,500 tons per day and the US First Army was chipping in another 3,000 tons a day as well.
The Germans chief problem was one of transportation. As discussed earlier the poor road net and conditions combined with Allied air power and artillery superiority to greatly restrict the German’s ability to bring the needed supplies forward.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
I suspect it was both. Before the Bulge, too many were still over-optimistic and were underestimating Germany's remaining strength. After the Ardennes intelligence failure, Ike is probably wondering what else the Germans have he doesn't know about.
That said, we have discussed that Ike's dislike of Devers was deep. I can't remember if it was posted or I read it somewhere else but Marshall asked Ike for his evaluation of the senior generals in the ETO and he rated Devers near the bottom of the list. There was no way Devers could win with Ike.
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Hey, loose lips...
He probably was kicking out a window to escape when some underage girl’s father came home. :’)
LOL!
the development of the SCR-717B Long Range Radar Search Radar and the super-secret SCR-729 Low Altitude (LAB) Radar Bombsight mounted in the ASV Radar-Equipped B-24 airplane gave birth to the Snoopers.
But all the different types of bombers and bombs on IWO JIMA give me the impression that these were practice and experimental missions, and also to protect the B29s.
The interpretation of mine that all the bombing was preinvasion hammering was always justification for me that all was done that could be done. This revelation reminds me that war is complex and wheels within wheels..........
By March 1944 the rapid retreat of the Japanese and their unwillingness to risk shipping in the Solomons area would result in technological unemployment for the “Snooper Squadron,” and at this time the radar planes would be authorized to serve as pathfinders for the high-altitude bombers.
http://weaponsandwarfare.com/?p=2157
Initially, the bombings were intended to eliminate IWO's threat to bases on Saipan. Naval bombardment of IWO would naturally serve a dual purpose in that shore batteries had to be taken out and that would count as pre-invasion naval bombardment.
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