The whole campaign against the Japanese was aimed at getting into decent bomber range of the Japanese home islands and establishing a staging area for an invasion. At one time the plan was to take the Philippians then Formosa with the idea that staging for an invasion would be in Formosa. By the time Mac went back to the Philippians that idea had been put aside for the more direct route that we followed. So basically letting Mac (the army and navy were against that plan as being unnecessary) take the Philippians was a political decision made by the president and yes Roosevelt directly intervened to make it happen. The only strategic advantage gained by retaking the Philippians was that it cause the Japanese to expend assets that they really couldn't afford by that time. By then a bypassed island chain was pretty much contained. The Japanese had no means of supporting those trapped on those islands so any men and equipment was lost just as effectively as if they were crushed in combat.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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