[GeronL]

Japan isn’t exactly an unarmed country.

141 ship navy and an air force with at least 350 fighter planes

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Moreover, the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) successfully won it's "platinum" battle stars against the Russians in 1904 ...

and gave the U.S. Navy quite a run for it's money in the 1940s ...



A great read is Neptune's Inferno ... about the seesaw battle for the Solomon Islands ...

and the devastating accuracy of the IJN "Long Lance" torpedo ...



The ChiComs would last about two-three weeks in a naval engagement against Japan.



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