Great book by John D Lukacs on the Pacific War, he centers it around the escape of 10 men from a Japanese PW camp in the Philippines in 42, and the shock wave it eventually caused. An interesting point he raises is only 15% of the total war effort up to Jan 1944 was expended in the Pacific.
Kind of insane to say come get us when you can't even put up a real fight for the next two years. I'd go with the incompetence theory at the highest levels of government. Some things never change.
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