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I haven't gotten the book yet, and outside of the Manhattan Project, my primary interest in WWII was the european theater, but I'm guessing that there was high strategic importance as far as being able to place airbases and naval supply stations in the Phillipines.
I do know, for example, that the longest runway in the Pacific Theater was on Tinian Island ... in the Marianas island chain, which is to the East of the Philippines.
You can command a lot of Pacific real estate if you hold the Phillipines.
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