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strategic brillance in the Phillipines
by redmanrt
On 8 Dec. 1942, despite 6 hours of warning, our planes were still neatly lined up on the runways of Clark airfield, all were destroyed. Despite months of gathering tensions with Japan, there were inadequate stockpiles of food on the Bataan peninsula. As a result, when the defeated American and Philippine POWs began the death march, they were already debilitated and starving. MacArthur postured from the safety of his tunnel on Corrigedor, then abandoned his men. After the war, to distract attention from his own failings, he vindictively pursued the 2 hapless Japanese generals put in charge of the invasion. In short, a piece of feces.
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