Well done, Mr. Burns...
good mention of the U-Boat predations on US shipping from the US
East Coast all along the Gulf of Mexico.
Those were DANGEROUS places early on.
Now there’s a modest critique of how McArthur failed to handle logistics
of fending off the Japanese in The Philippines.
Does give insight on why McArthur seemed to have moral conviction
about returning to liberate The Philippines.
And cancel out that “Dug-Out Doug” label...partly accountable to
an order for him to leave for Australia.