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Looking at that map - IMO anything beyond #1 is Operation Sea Lion territory ... Operations through empty steppes/deserts or along a single RR through forested mountains. Good luck!

750K tons = ~5,5M barrels If it could be done in 1945 I'd expect '42 not to be that much different.

Because Japan is at war with the USSR which from 22.VI.41 onward is "fighting for freedom" and thus the UK's and USA's Best Friend? However, I'd not expect the UK to lash out its own against Japan in 1941 - Britain was reeling from Churchill's fuck ups and a DOW against Japan would had led to a...

I've read otherwise. After transferring North Sakhalin to USSR in 1925 the Japanese retained rights to exploit oil fields north of the border. I've read somewhere that all oil from North Sakhalin somehow belonged to the IJN? Also, once Sakhalin is taken, it will be too far away from any Soviet...

As to Japan running out of oil in "attacks USSR" scenario - won't Japan have the Sakhalin oil fields all to itself, thus alleviating the crunch? As to the effect on the USSR - no LL over the Transsiberian RR - what other impact? The Soviet Far East is far away, sparsely populated, with no...

Shit happens. Sooner or later a USN vessel will eat a torpedo, allowing FDR to go before Congress waving the bloody long johns of Seaman Joe Doe, heroicaly deceased while protecting a shipment of off-brand powdered milk and Kellogg's "Khorne Flakes" for starving children in Britain paid for by...

He will continue to put USN warships between U-boots and merchant vessels carrying munitions to the UK.