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Interesting video here :
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses early American logistics in the Pacific during World War Two, with a focus on replenishment, repair, reinforcements, and replacements.

https://youtu.be/NSExpG6e6bg?si=Gc4udFovv8Q7Lu06

Interesting video. Thanks for posting. I think I saw this somewhere though....GP

What's Going on With Shipping: 1942 Edition with Historian Jon Parshall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njd2xvMcTx8

Mr. Parshall States the Japanese did not need the Malaya rubber after '42 because they did not need it. They had low war time production. He's probably right because the Japanese had no problem producing self sealing fuel tanks in their mid war fighters, etc.

They also allude to fuel shortages. The Japanese saw the tide turning after the Marshalls and sortied the CV TF from Truk a number of times in early '44. All with no contact before withdrawing the Combined Fleet from Truk one month before
Hailstone. I think fuel was tight but did not affect operations until '44.

Pearl Harbor: A Third Wave To Destroy Oil Tanks? w/ Jonathan Parshall

This is a well informed crowd but I thought I would put this out there anyway.

At 11:00 Parshall writes how original sources are often misleading.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-pp2Rk59Yg