What's the sitch?
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I saw a documentary on this and it seems that the Japanese allowed the Americans to fully land and take large sections of the island and were basically just entrenched in certain prepared areas. Was there a real reason to send so many people to their deaths of this meat grinder instead of just setting of wires and kill zones to keep the Japanese in their sections? Was it just a remnant of prior ages of battle where you defeat an enemy just because they are there? Or some belief that they must be hiding something worth dying in droves for(some weapons lab with new tech)?
I don't mean to sound like an armchair general with 20/20 hindsight but in all the video games I play you just skip those areas or wall the enemy in for later. By all appearance to me as a non expert it seems that the Allies owned all the coast and enough land area to build landing strips if they needed and the Japanese would just starve to death in their bunkers and holes anyway.
I've tried looking up this question elsewhere and I can't really find anyone talking about it.
I don't mean to sound like an armchair general with 20/20 hindsight but in all the video games I play you just skip those areas or wall the enemy in for later. By all appearance to me as a non expert it seems that the Allies owned all the coast and enough land area to build landing strips if they needed and the Japanese would just starve to death in their bunkers and holes anyway.
I've tried looking up this question elsewhere and I can't really find anyone talking about it.
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