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Point taken, EwenS. A decision in the early 1920's to put the UK's main Far East base in an Australian port instead of in Singapore, in addition to the economic benefits for Down Under and the eventual effects on the disastrous Malaya/Singapore Campaign and the fate of Force Z, would presumably have also mitigated some of these problems with the British Pacific Fleet's 1945 sojourn in Australia that you mention. Speeding up the integration that was coming anyway, to both Australia's and the UK's profit. A lost opportunity?

[QUOTE="Owens Z, post: 765447, member: 46171"] Point taken, EwenS. A decision in the early 1920's to put the UK's main Far East base in an Australian port instead of in Singapore, in addition to the economic benefits for Down Under and the eventual effects on the disastrous Malaya/Singapore Campaign and the fate of Force Z, would presumably have also mitigated some of these problems with the British Pacific Fleet's 1945 sojourn in Australia that you mention. Speeding up the integration that was coming anyway, to both Australia's and the UK's profit. A lost opportunity? [/QUOTE]

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