great discussion.

I have read quite a bit about ww2 and I believe you both make good points. One thing about Mac is that he did by pass some of japan's strongholds. His stated philosopy was to "hit em where they ain't" a baseball analogy.

We bypassed and isolated numerous japanese strongholds thereby saving a lot of lives.

In William Manchester's book about Mac "MacArthur, American Caesar" Manchester stated that Nimitz's work in the north pacific was much much more bloody than the work that Mac did in the southern part of the pacific. In fact he stated that Mac had the lowest casualty rates of any General in any theater of our army (I believe I have quoted correctly or paraphrased).

Nimitz and Mac represented two different chains of command, Navy and Army.

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