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| View Poll Results: Your favorite Pacific campaign or battle to study / discuss? | |||
| Pearl Harbor / Hawaii | | 8 | 14.04% |
| Phillipines / early | | 2 | 3.51% |
| Phillipines / late | | 8 | 14.04% |
| Netherlands East Indies, all time periods | | 2 | 3.51% |
| China | | 1 | 1.75% |
| Burma / southeast asia | | 6 | 10.53% |
| India, Indian Ocean | | 2 | 3.51% |
| Australia | | 3 | 5.26% |
| Solomons | | 10 | 17.54% |
| Coral Sea | | 3 | 5.26% |
| New Guinea / New Britain, etc. | | 6 | 10.53% |
| Marshalls | | 2 | 3.51% |
| Gilberts | | 1 | 1.75% |
| central Micronesia | | 1 | 1.75% |
| Marianas | | 4 | 7.02% |
| Iwo Jima | | 8 | 14.04% |
| Okinawa | | 6 | 10.53% |
| Manchuria / Korea / Soviet Union / Mongolia | | 1 | 1.75% |
| Japanese home Islands | | 2 | 3.51% |
| Alaska / Aleutians | | 6 | 10.53% |
| Open waters / odd locations / backwater warfare | | 5 | 8.77% |
| U.S. homefront | | 1 | 1.75% |
| Wake / Midway | | 14 | 24.56% |
| Boy, I'm sure I forgot a glaring obvious place! | | 4 | 7.02% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 57. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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| | #1 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| Your favorite Pacific battle / campaign to study? OK, I know I'm going to forget some, so there will be an "other" category. Keep in mind for this poll we are not talking merely about air combat but also ground and naval combat as well. I will put as many as I can remember. Thus the category "Solomons" would include air combat, ground combat, and naval combat in that area-- all that went with it. I know this poll can't be perfect, but please just play along. And it may take me a few minutes to get all the options listed, for all you who like to get excited about me "forgetting" to post the options. |
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| | #2 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
Posts: 277
| I hope everybody carefully reads all the options before voting. Doolittle Raid should be counted under Japan home islands. I chose Solomons as my favorite. The exploits of the Cactus Air Force are legendary, and things were really in the balance around the end of '42. |
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| | #3 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 265
| I'm voting for "Other", the Battle of Leyte Gulf, because my dad was involved in it. It may be classified in Phillipines (late), but since it was such a huge battle with many facets, I'm going to separate it out. tom
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| | #4 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas
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| Both of my grandpas' were in the Marine Corps during the Pacific campaign. They were at Iwo Jima. But the most interesting battle to me was Okinawa. Okinawa was one of the most massive and vicious battles in mankinds history. It forced the presidents hand to use the nuke in fact, which was a hard decision to make. Looking at the casualty counts on Okinawa they realized that an invasion of mainland Japan would produce 1,000,000 plus KIA possibly.
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| | #5 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| New Guinea and the Solomons. So many battles and stories for nearly the whole war.
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| | #6 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| Looks like a lot of different interests! Thanks for voting! |
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| | #7 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| Well, I was considering Leyte Gulf to be included under Phillipines, late, but you explained yourself well. |
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| | #8 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 159
| Midway I would have to say the battle of Midway for three reasons that I find fascinating. 1) That such a monumental loss to the seemingly unstoppable Japanese should happen so soon after Pearl Harbor (6 months) is just awesome and I think sometimes that aspect is overlooked. 2) The fact that the whole battle seemed to play out like a chess match. By that I mean intelligence, deception, intuition and luck (both bad and good) seem to play greater parts in this battle then the brute force, slugging matches that characterized later Pacific theater engagements. 3) Arguable the under-dog won. I guess they don't call it the "Miracle at Midway" for nothing. |
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| None actually, but since I am moving to Alaska I really am getting interested in the fighting there.
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| | #10 |
| Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away
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| I chose New Guinea because of fantastic people which fought there (mjr Ed Warner, commander of 90.BS for example).
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| | #11 |
| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008
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| I chose Open Water, mainly because my main subject of study is American submarine warfare in WW2. Granted, I could have picked ANY of those choices, but I felt Open Water fit best (was half tempted to pick Japanese Home Islands). |
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| | #12 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Escondido,Ca
Posts: 2,206
| I went with the solomans, just seems very interesting for some reason
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| | #13 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: FL
Posts: 3,294
| Guadalcanal or Leyete |
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| Senior Member | Okinawa.... |
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| | #15 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: British Columbia
Posts: 2,281
| Seems I'm the first CW or UK poster. I guess that Malaysia & Singapore got lumped in with Burma & SE Asia? {I think there was some kind of minor skirmish there?} ![]() The battles in Singapore & Malaysia are more interesting, Burma is like watching a train wreck....
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