Good Lord!! Why were the allies always thinking something was impossible at the beginning of the war and before it!!!
You cant get through Franc except through the Maginot line.
Thanks wont work in this terrain.
Boy did we (the west) learn our lessons the hard way.
I should like to read more about this is I am VERY unfamiliar with the ground war against Japan.
Most movies and history lessons were about the decisive naval battles.
Enjoy your studies, although, it is heartbreaking what the British forces and civilian population had to go through. That is what my interest was in.
The ground game of the Japanese through Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia was astonishing, perhaps also because part of it was simultaneous with Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese at that time were brilliant and bold strategist. Who would know they are the same people now.