Only 5-6 inches in town; much more (18”+) just a few miles west.
You realize how large the Pacific is when you can turn a globe in such a way that almost one half is the Pacific Ocean. Supply was the Achilles’ Heel of the Japanese; many of the troops they landed in Alaska killed themselves before the Americans arrived to remove them because they realized they had no way out. I read an account of the last guy they brought in from the Philippines (around 1974), and it was so depressing. He was with another one or two guys, and they’d stolen a radio. They heard that Japan was hosting the Olympics, so they figured the war was going well; they’d hear about the war in Vietnam, and thought we were dealing with the same Viet-Minh that resisted Japanese occupation. Filipino villagers would shoot at them because they’d steal food and set fire to haystacks at night; when asked about setting the fires he said they were signaling Japan they were ready to help with the re-conquest of the Philippines. Eventually the others were killed, and Americans had to bring his former sergeant there to lure him our of the jungle. His uniform was in tatters but his rifle was kept in great shape. I believe he joined a small colony of similar people who couldn’t adjust to modern Japan; they went to live in the jungle in Brazil, IIRC. While feted as a hero, he saw nothing heroic about what he’d done; he had simply done his duty.
I recently watched “1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines” (based on a true story) about an isolated Spanish garrison that holds on for almost a year in a remote part of the Philippines because they don’t believe the restive peasants when they say that Spain has lost the Philippines to the US in the Spanish-American War. The officer shoots a couple of guys for deserting before realizing the truth; very sad.