What if: modified IJN A-Go plan- with Unryu class
Here's a what-if scenario: say Premier Tojo and the Imperial cabinet allow the IJN to delay their operation A-Go, letting the Marianas fall to the US in June 1944.The IJN decides not to face the USN...
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Without a major resistance in the Philippine Sea the USN would plow through and probably be able to move on Leyte faster. With more forces available the historical plan might not be taken. Instead the...
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I can't say if those ships could be made ready, but I'm all but positive their air groups could be with anything but the most sub par pilots. I question their ability to even get that many available...
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Much of the Mobile Fleet carriers before the Philippines had air wings fully stocked and working up before they got stripped and sent off to their destruction during the raids on Formosa, so the...
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