Timeline for Why did Japan fail to interfere with shipping from America to Vladivostok from 1941-1945?
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| Sep 1, 2018 at 17:14 | comment | added | DevSolar | @DavidThornley: You are apparently still completely missing the gist of my answer. Japan was not at war with Russia. So they had nothing to gain from attacking Russia-bound shipping, which happened outside the theater in which they were actively fighting. | |
| Sep 1, 2018 at 17:05 | comment | added | David Thornley | I rechecked. The Soviets had a lot of submarines, which aren't real useful for escorting shipping, and about a dozen destroyers in the Pacific for the war. For most of the war, that would not have been a serious problem for the Japanese. In both 1943 and 1944, they added a Kirov-class cruiser, fast and fairly well-armed. I don't know when they became operational, and they did nothing during the war. Therefore, for about the first two years of the war, Japan would have had no problems. After Leyte Gulf, they would have had serious problems. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 17:33 | comment | added | DevSolar | @DavidThornley: Japans declared and primary enemy was the USA, and they did not have the "plenty" of naval forces to pick a fight with the Soviets in addition to the (losing!) war they already had on their hands. And as I said, there was nothing to gain there. The US shipped war material out of the theater the Japanese were trying to contest. Fine, let them, that's material they are not using to kick Japanese forces any harder than they already did. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 17:29 | comment | added | David Thornley | The Soviet Pacific Fleet at this time was rather unimpressive, and the Japanese had plenty of naval forces in the area to defeat it soundly, even after the disastrous defeats of 1944. | |
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| May 11, 2016 at 13:20 | history | answered | DevSolar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |