cherry blossom
Senior Airman
- 510
- Apr 23, 2007
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Apparently this wasn't enough to meet Japanese requirements.it is estimated that as much as 27,000 tons of nickel were produced in 1942, and 58,000 tons in 1944
East Indies Nickel Production.
http://www.eca-watch.org/problems/asia_pacific/indonesia/japan_inco.pdf
Apparently this wasn't enough to meet Japanese requirements.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/australia/oceania_pol01.jpg
Why didn't Japan seize New Caledonia during May 1942 rather then piddling around in New Guinea? New Caledonia was one of the largest nickel producers.
France would never agree to Japanese troops on French soil unless they had no choice.joint Japanese - Vichy force from Indochina to "reestablish French control".
I once found a book written by a Japanese engineer, "The Romance of Engines" by Takashi Suzuki, which claimed that the problem with the Ha-40 crankshaft was the heat treatment of the crankshaft pin. Suzuki seems to argue that, at least initially, the Japanese alloys contained the same nickel content as the German alloys.
What other raw materials were in such short supply that lower performance had to be accepted?