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Such motorized troops became the weak point in the muddy land of China against the communists who relied on the foot in the late 1940s civil war. This is a testimony by an IJA officer who stayed in China in the postwar.
 
China ... a love story.
Christian America was moved by China ... influenced by Protestant missionaries ... and saw China as a country of vast potential ... and in need of the Lord's Grace. and reform This focus made military decisions difficult ... in the face of Kuomintang corruption and unwillingness to accept sound military stategy.
On August 1, 1945 the IJA was largely undefeated in China.
Unaware of the Manhatten Project, General Chenault, Chang Kai Shek and his cohort favored a plan to bomb Japan to ashes from China and conduct amphibious operation to bite off and retake large chunks of the coastal areas and ultimately to defeat the IJA, in China .... this game plan promised to yield even larger aid contributions from the USA for the pending Civil War.
Churchill was exasperated with FDR's deference to China but America remained supportive of the Nationalists, even though their regime was indifferent to the needs of the masses and careless ...
The following, courtesy "The Atlantic" ... America interacts
 
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