What was Japan’s plan of attack for invading Australia (where was their attack planned!?)Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: As far as I know the Japanese never planned an invasion of Australia, they wanted to isolate it and cut the supply routes to the USA and Europe, as well as stop it being used as a launching off point for counter attacks!. They raided Darwin and Broome by air (more than once) as well as the mini subs into Sydney harbour!. The Australian response was pretty panick stricken, with the troops esp!. at Darwin assuming the raid was a prelude to invasion-some troops didn't stop running until they reached Adelaide River! The Australian plan for defending against the invasion they thought was coming was to abandon everything north of Brisbane (the so called Brisbane Line)!. After the Battle of the Coral Sea which thwarted their attempt at an amphibious invasion of Port Moresby, the Japanese tried to attack it over the Owen Stanley range leading to the Kokoda battles!. They were also advancing along the Solomon Islands chain, building an airfield on Guadalcanal to cut off Australia's links through that route!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Japan's success in the early months of the Pacific War led elements of the IJN to propose invading Australia!. In December 1941 the Navy proposed including an invasion of Northern Australia as one of Japan's 'stage two' war objectives after South-East Asia was conquered!. This proposal was most strongly pushed by Captain Sadatoshi Tomioka, the head of the Navy General Staff's Planning section, on the grounds that the United States was likely to use Australia as a base to launch a counter-offensive in the South-West Pacific!. The Navy headquarters argued that this invasion could be carried out by a small landing force as this area of Australia was lightly defended and isolated from Australia's main population centres!. There was not universal support for this proposal within the Navy, however, and Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Fleet, consistently opposed it!. The Japanese Army opposed the Navy's proposal as being impractical!. The Army's focus was on defending the perimeter of Japan's conquests, and it believed that invading Australia would over-extend these defense lines!. Moreover, the Army was not willing to release the large number of troops it calculated were needed for such an operation from the Kwantung Army in Manchuria as it both feared that the Soviet Union would enter the Pacific War and wanted to preserve an option for Japan to invade Siberia Www@QuestionHome@Com In early 1942 elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) proposed an invasion of Australia!. This proposal was opposed by the Japanese Army and was rejected in favour of a policy of attacking Midway Island and isolating Australia from the United States by advancing through the South Pacific!. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Planned_inv!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the Japs wanted to isolate Australia but needed the Airstrip at port morsby in New Guinea but the landed on the other side of the island and had to climb over the Range where they met their Australian foe who kicked *** the first time the Japs were stopped and by militia australian week end soldiers they did bomb Darwin and did sneak into sydney harbour with mini subs but they underestimated the Australians and never landed on Australian soil and Australia was a safe staging post for MaCarthur Www@QuestionHome@Com |