Chairman Mao wrote:

laudablepuss wrote:

The Army Air Corps defeated Japan? Or 90% of it? What about our subs sinking every merchant marine ship in the water? That probably accounted for 90% of the starvation. Or the Aviators who took out 90% of their Navy? I think you're 90% wrong here.

And as usual you're 900% a fucking ignoramus. Didn't I mention the Marines and the Navy? Who gives a cunt if the ships were being sunk when every rail hub, port facility, factory, and eventually, residential neighborhood was a smouldering ruin? Oh look! the supplies got through! To sit in the harbor without so much as a hand truck to unload them. By War's end Japan had 0 shipyards, 0 oil refineries, 0 factories, 0 complete rail links, 0 bridges. This was entirely the Air Corps doing. You don't think that contributed a lion's share to the final surrender you're living in a different world than I am. You probably are aware that the armies in Japan were still in fairly good working order... except that they couldn't move for lack of any fuel or rails to do it. Hence the coup plot failed at the last moment and the surrender went through. Do I even need to go in to the Atomic bombings? I suppose you think they were lobbed from Battleships.

As far as the "giant", I think the war effort was pretty universal and the millitary owed plenty to the private sector.

Yes. I'm not saying the Army mouthpiece's indoctrinated crap statement was correct or even sane; only that he could say that since the Air Corps were part of the Army then, the Army can take more credit.