John Green
I’m glad you see the author of a book whose title proclaims the Lancaster as the”greatest” as unbiased and objective. 🙂
From my vantage point, I don’t think the UK was all that serious about the Tiger Force.
After VE day it looks like the UK began to demob. Certainly the promised long range Lancasters weren’t thick on the ground.
Again, the UK wasn’t that active in the Pacific ocean, most of their efforts was in Southeast Asia and India Burma. Again it looked like they were more interested in getting back their colonies than a strategic effort against the Japanese homeland.
The Americans were interested in ending the war in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the attack on other American territories.
And the US reluctance to assist in recovering those colonies had nothing to do with this resource allocation? Likewise the US putting every obstacle in the way of allies being involved in capturing Japanese territory (the Australians certainly didn’t prefer to be doing mopping up ops away from the main effort in 44-45).
The Americans were interested in furthering their interests, just like everyone else.
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