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How do you supply bases across a vast ocean while under enemy fire?
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Type 4 completed testing in March 1944 and was accepted into service. But by then, the IJN was looking to use the Type 4 offensively as it grew clear the Japanese home islands would soon come under attack.
Imperial Japan faced a vexing dilemma in World War II: it had military bases sprawling across far-flung Pacific islands from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea to the Attu and Kiska islands near Alaska. But the merchant ships necessary to supply, reinforce and especially
feed those garrisons were being sunk left and right by the U.S. Navy’s highly effective submarines and bombers.