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Re:How the War Was Won by nl on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:59PM (#33604701)
> so much as it's lack of bulldozers [to, e.g., build airfields]

The Japanese didn't need bulldozers. They had conscripted local labor and their planes could take off and land on dirt strips.

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Re:How the War Was Won by throw0101c on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:04PM (#33604734)
The Imperial Japanese Navy thought otherwise, given that they commissioned Komatsu to build a whole bunch:

* https://www.kenkenkikki.jp/museum/bulldozer/e_bull1930-04.ht...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu_Limited

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