pacific war

In Cairo Conference during WWII the Americans, not wanting the French to return to Indochina, had offered Chiang entire control of French Indochina, but he deliberately withheld his soldiers from occupying Vietnam since he was going to use them to fight the communists inside China. The was...

John Parshall, while teaming up with the "unauthorized history of the Pacific war" guys mentioned something a little bit radical. The IJN, he said, should have been able to win the Guadalcanal campaign by seizing and holding the water around Guadalcanal. He noted that the optimal time for this...

Let`s say the Netherlands finds itself in Denmark's shoes. Would there be a peace treaty since the nazis were at war with the Netherlands but not with Denmark? What is the fate of the Dutch East Indies? In a scenario where this leads to the United States remaining a non-belligerent, what is the...

According to the Spanish diplomat F.E. Reynoso, in 1894 the Japanese offered to buy the Philippines from Spain for 40 million pounds sterling. However, according to Reynoso this offer was not accepted.[20] According to the scholar C.E. Russell, in 1896 Spain was rumoured to have offered to sell...

Well guys I know this question has been asked a number of times so we assume the Pacific War broke out early between the United States and Japan we assume for example between or in 1933-1938 and as the title says what is the impact on East Asia specifically Japan China and the United States and...

In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed to Japan in order to open up the country for trade. In OTL Japan accepted the treaty and opened up to the west and would adopt more western policies including imperialism eventually creating the Empire of Japan and would kick off the pacific war in WW2...

So first of all, hello everyone. This is my first post after making my account over half a year ago and lurking for many years before that. Good to be here. Now, I've been wondering about the full potential for Japanese expansion if they have a free (or freer) hand in the Pacific. The scenario...

This is scenario that's been in my head for a couple of times now. One thing I learned is that Japan wanted the United States to abandon the Asia-Pacific in order to respect its imperial ambitions. Of course, the Japanese messed up at Pearl Harbor and learned the hard way not to awake the...

The Soviet Union planed on invading Hokkaido during the brief Soviet Japanese War in August 1945 however a week or 2 before the planned invasion the Japanese of course surrendered. Truman at the Yalta conference gave a ok to the Soviets taking the Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands however I think...

The POD of this Pacific War scenario is to do with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Salamaua%E2%80%93Lae In the midst of this: Around this time, the Indian Ocean Raid by the Kido Butai was being planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_raid My proposed chain of...

THE IRON EAGLE INTRODUCTION DISCLAIMER: I do not endorse in any form the crimes and atrocities committed by the criminal regime of the Third Reich, this scenario has been made with the intent of exploring the possibility of a highly improbable success of the German military campaigns in WWII...

Would he be tried for wars crimes? Or would he be a officer for the JMSDF by 1954 just like how Minuro Genda became third Chief of Staff of the JASDF? Or would he run for politics such as the Diet?

So this is my first attempt at an alternate history scenario. In this case, I have decided to go with something that has only been touched on briefly by @ Zheng He. Specifically what if USS Hornet's Air Group led by CDR Stanhope Ring didn't lead the fighters and dive bombers on the 'flight to...

The IJN's four-strong Mogami-class are probably the most blatant example of naval treaty violation in human history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogami-class_cruiser Originally they were armed with fifteen 6.1-inch guns in five triple turrets, with a max RoF of 5 rounds a minute (the powder...

Considering the following incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_raid#Blenheims_attack_the_Japanese_carriers Would it be possible (possible, not discussing likelihood) for one the the Blenheims to get lucky and more or less replicate the elevator hit that killed Akagi at Midway?

Imagine that, in addition to the ships that VAdm Takeo Kurita possesses in the IJN's Centre Force at Leyte Gulf, he also has the Shinano, completed as a proper battleship instead of a crappy carrier, and the Mutsu, which doesn't blow up in 1943. This gives Centre Force the following capital...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to get the IJN's anti-submarine doctrine, ships, planes and other equipment into fighting shape for the Pacific War by December 1, 1941. You may use any POD after 1900; you must stay within historical resources used on the IJN. However, not...

Imagine the following: USS South Dakota is more badly damaged at Santa Cruz Islands than in real life. Perhaps the torpedo that did in Porter hits her, or she gets struck by more bombs. This means that, when Vice Admiral Kondo and his force rock up to try and bombard Henderson Field again on...

If in 1940 peace is made between the waring European powers what are Japan's strategic options? Specifically, in a peace that left the entente's colonial empires largely intact in Asia, does Japan still strike south? Do they give up, fearing the full attention of the British and French navies...

Obviously Japan cannot win or even last that much longer short of ASBs, it's a question of when and how it loses, and the circumstances relating to it. I am here to ask one of those questions. For a bit of background, Kuniaki Koiso was previously Minister of Colonial Affairs for a short time...