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Why didn't the U.S. bypass the Philippines and move directly to Japan in World War 2?
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When Japan pushed the US into WW2, the Philippines were an American territory, although they had been promised independence for 1946. MacArthur had promised to return and the thought of leaving an American territory under the conqueror without directly taking it back was politically unpalatable. So the Us strategy was to approach Japan from two directions, one of them being through the Philippines.
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