ANNEX PLANS FOR PACIFIC WAR F.M.D. 163 I EXTENT OF ACCELERATION IN PROGRAMME The programme described in this signal amounts to a considerable speeding up of the Pacific advance on that decided upon at SEXTANT*, and on that described under the "most favourable case" for the Pacific Strategy in C.O.S.(44) 183 (0)+. A comparison of these programmes is shown in Appendix. 2. The main points are:(a) Since the Marianas are now to be captured some 3½ months earlier, the V.L.R. bombing of industrial Japan will be able to start that much sooner.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Australia China Formosa Ireland Japan Malaya Philippines Russia Singapore United States of America
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/121/54
- Document Types
- Memorandum Report
- File Reference
- CAB 81/121
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0121.054
- Keywords
- Allied Strategy Pacific War Predicting Enemy Reactions Intelligence Requirements
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Joint Intelligence Staff Joint Planning Staff South-East Asia Command
- Pages
- 5
- Persons Discussed
- Edward King-Salter
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
