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Japan's weaknesses today are exactly the same as during WW2. Nothing has changed.
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Turning off the Tap: Bombing Japan's Oil Refineries and Storage Centers
By Bob Hackett
By 1944, as outlined in my preceding six Special Features, American air attacks on Southeast Asian oil refineries and storage facilities under Japanese control, combined with air and submarine predation on shipping, had effectively cut off the flow of crude oil to the home islands.
The Imperial Navy (IJN) was Japan’s largest consumer of fuel oil. In July 1944, the situation had become so desperate that the oiled-starved navy was forced to take such measures as cutting a hole in the bottom of sunken battleship MUTSU’s hulk and pumping out 580-tons of fuel oil for use by their ships in Operation Take ("Bamboo"). In the latter part of 1944, the IJN's naval aviation fuel situation had become so desperate that it began investigating the possibility of extracting aviation fuel from pine roots.
By 1945, most of Japan's naval and merchant fleet was rusting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean; nevertheless, Japan stubbornly soldiered on. Now, her urgent need was for aviation gasoline for fighter aircraft to defend against increasing raids by American Boeing B-29 “Superfortress” heavy bombers that in March 1945 had fire-bombed and destroyed most of Tokyo and threatened the Emperor in his Imperial Palace. Aviation gasoline was also needed to power Japan’s final weapon, their “kamikaze” suicide planes.
Japan's Oil Refineries and Storage Centers, Bob Hackett
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Turning off the Tap: Bombing Japan's Oil Refineries and Storage Centers
By Bob Hackett
By 1944, as outlined in my preceding six Special Features, American air attacks on Southeast Asian oil refineries and storage facilities under Japanese control, combined with air and submarine predation on shipping, had effectively cut off the flow of crude oil to the home islands.
The Imperial Navy (IJN) was Japan’s largest consumer of fuel oil. In July 1944, the situation had become so desperate that the oiled-starved navy was forced to take such measures as cutting a hole in the bottom of sunken battleship MUTSU’s hulk and pumping out 580-tons of fuel oil for use by their ships in Operation Take ("Bamboo"). In the latter part of 1944, the IJN's naval aviation fuel situation had become so desperate that it began investigating the possibility of extracting aviation fuel from pine roots.
By 1945, most of Japan's naval and merchant fleet was rusting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean; nevertheless, Japan stubbornly soldiered on. Now, her urgent need was for aviation gasoline for fighter aircraft to defend against increasing raids by American Boeing B-29 “Superfortress” heavy bombers that in March 1945 had fire-bombed and destroyed most of Tokyo and threatened the Emperor in his Imperial Palace. Aviation gasoline was also needed to power Japan’s final weapon, their “kamikaze” suicide planes.
Japan's Oil Refineries and Storage Centers, Bob Hackett
