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Real Historic Moment which determined Everybody's Fate in Taiwan since 1944.
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http://blog.udn.com/tel2366/23512895
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ... G-E0THt29c8RmF9qMcd
3. The Academic Version --- "Luzon Versus Formosa"
http://www.history.army.mil/books/70-7_21.htm
4. The recently Declassified full PDF for the "
Retaliatory Gas Attack Plan on Formosa"
showed in ÃöÁä®É¨è.
http://gis.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/G ... TACK-ON-FORMOSA.pdf
Conclusion:
The Joint Chiefs of Staff did not formally cancel the Formosa operation. Instead, they left in abeyance a final decision on the seizure of that island, but thereafter the occupation of Formosa as an operation of World War II never came up for serious consideration at the higher levels of Washington planning councils.
The Joint Chiefs had not reached their decision to take Luzon, bypass Formosa, and, in effect, substitute Okinawa for Formosa, either lightly or easily. From the beginning of the Luzon versus Formosa debate they had believed the seizure of Formosa and a port on the south China coast-bypassing Luzon-to be the best strategy the Allies could follow in the western Pacific.
In the end, however, the Joint Chiefs had had to face the fact that the Allies could not assemble the resources required to execute that strategy, at least until after the end of the war in Europe. They could not seriously consider delaying the progress of the war in the Pacific until Germany collapsed. In the last analysis then,
logistical considerations alone would have forced the Joint Chiefs to the decision they reached in favor of Luzon, although other military realities, and possibly political factors as well, had some influence upon the outcome of strategic planning for operations in the western Pacific.
For the Allied forces of the Pacific theaters, the Joint Chiefs' directive of 3 October 1944 ended months of uncertainty. The die was cast. Luzon would be taken; Formosa would be bypassed. United States forces would recapture the entire Philippines Archipelago in a consecutive series of advances, just as General MacArthur had been planning ever since he had left Corregidor in March 1942.