re: OT Historians - Where Was Japan Getting Their Oil from During WWII?

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oil baws don’t get enough credit for aiding the war effort. Pretty much all of the Allies oil and refined products came from the US.

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The Citgo refinery (City Service) in Sulphur was specifically built to refine high octane fuel for airplanes during WW2.

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That's my understanding. The US oil spigot was turned off which ostensibly incited the Japs to attack Pearl Harbor.

What I'm asking is that after we turned their supply off where did they get oil then?

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Conquereed territories. That was their main reason for taking the Dutch East Indies.

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Not only that, the fuel coming out of the US was higher octane than what the Axis had, which made a huge difference in performance when it came to aircraft.

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The USA started supplying Great Britian with 100 Octane aviation gasoline in early 1940.

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OT Historians - Where Was Japan Getting Their Oil from During WWII?

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In addition to the other sources of oil already mentioned in this thread, Japan also received crude oil from the USSR all during the war.
Many Americans, maybe even MOST Americans, don't know that the Soviet Union and Japan signed a non-agression pact with each other in April, 1941, whereby each nation agreed to remain neutral towards each other in the event of war with other nations.

The agreement allowed the Soviet Union the ability to move millions of military men and thousands of pieces of military equipment from its far eastern defenses to the west to fight against the Germans.

It also allowed Japan to acquire crude oil and iron ore and steel products from the Soviet Union to use in its fight against the Chinese, British and the United States.

The pact stayed in force until April, 1945 when the Soviet Union gave the required 90-day notice to Japan that it would be withdrawing from the agreement.

The Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 9, 1945, the same day the U.S.A. dropped its second atomic bomb on Japan on Nagasaki.

Six days later, on August 15, 1945 Japan announced its surrender to the Allies Pacific forces.

When I worked in Moscow in the late 1990's I learned the Russian version of how the war with Japan ended.

1) The U.S.A. dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan on August 6, 1945. The war continued.

2) The U.S.A. dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki in the morning of August 9, 1945. No word from Japan that it was considering surrendering.

3) Later in the day on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan after six hours earlier attacking the Japanese forces stationed in Mongolia, Manchuria and Korea and quickly overran the depleted Japanese forces defending those areas.

4) Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945.

5) The declaration of war by the Soviet Union on Japan caused the Japanese to surrender, NOT the atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the U.S.A.

6) The Soviet Union gets credit for ending the war in the Pacific theater in World War II, and it only took six days to happen.

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SoFla Tideroller

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The 8th Air Force gets tons of praise (and rightfully so) for their efforts over Germany and the sustained losses.

The US submarine loss eclipsed them. 1% of the US Navy were submariners and they sank over 80% of the Japanese tonnage at a loss rate of over 40%.

As a former submariner myself, I can’t even imagine this.

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In addition to the other sources of oil already mentioned in this thread, Japan also received crude oil from the USSR all during the war.

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I don’t know who, but someone has fed you a load of horse shite.

That guy also thought Kiev was going to fall in 2 weeks last year.

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That guy also thought Kiev was going to fall in 2 weeks last year.

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Who, me? Care to give a link supporting your contention? I don't remember making any predictions about the Russia/Ukraine war when it started. I'm pretty sure you made that up or you have me confused with someone else.