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Originally Posted by m21sniper
Hold what ? The Island itself was useless for what the Japanese needed. That was one of the great failures of the Japanese plan to begin with. They expected to turn it into a major base, but it was wholly unsuited for such a use. Their intel sucked, the entire operation was nonsensical. As was their invasion of the Aleutians.
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Indeed. The whole idea of an offensive war against the Americans in the Pacific was plain crazy. The answers probably lie in the psychology of the Japanese militarists at that time.
