I've got the russian sub into Pacific waters before, along the way talking so much trash that Japanese waste resources trying to sink the ship.

Looks to be the best heavyweight matchup in MMA or boxing in many years.

So would India be after of before Australia!

Thats quite the question. Without the arms the British provided them with as well as considering that the number of troops in the Indian army was radically reduced when the country was partitioned at the time of Indian independence.

India does have the manpower advantage over Australia in a massive way but the equipment the British left them with was hardly that modern and they didnt have a large airforce either. So I would personally put Australia above India but only just, Australia's large airforce negates India's man power advantage and then some.

Interestingly enough today India is well on its way to becoming a miltary superpower with the world's 4th largest airforce and a navy that is growing at a great rate of knots including the construction of 2 aircraft carriers and the purchase of a former Russian navy carrier.

Soviet or Russian AC?

Soviet Built Carrier Admiral Gorshkov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Gorshkov
What is interesting about the modern Russian navy is that they are beginning a massive shipbuilding operation to create a fleet that would give it the second largest carrier force in the world. The Russians are currently planning a fleet of 6 carrier battle groups of large carriers that would rival the Nimitz class carriers in size. Whether or not that will actually happen is a matter of great debate but if it does it greatly shifts the balance of power in the worlds oceans. The real question is if they get their carriers what are they going to do with them?

Link to story on plan for 6 Russian carrier battle groups
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071113/87843710.html

Thats good. It's sad to see the world's navies mothballed. If I'm not mistaken I heard that Turkey has a navy as large as the Royal Navy!

Citizens should have the right to protect themselves, within reason, without the government interfering.

The only major thing they did was take Tsingtao. Germany tried to get it to help Mexico attack the US, but this was impossible. What could Japan attack? Even with a huge navy, without a good army(something they lacked even in WW2-they didn't have the logistics to take China or India), they can just take small costal territories.

How would the threat of Japan in the Pacific effect the North Sea showdown?

Not at all? The best the Japs ever did in putting navy far away was subs in the Med

I'm not suggesting the Japan would have ships in the North Sea. How would England react to a serious Pacific threat.

Spee's cruisers caused considerable problems to the Allies in 1914.; enough of a problem to justify the stationing of battlecruiser in the Port Stanley. The Allies would have to counter a Japanese threat with a massive fleet. This could have even the odds in the North Sea and allowed Germany to actually use its navy.

Had the 400,000 Australia troops had to fight in the Pacific and not againist the Ottomans and in France how would this effect the war?

Any of you play with Ninja Turtles growing up?

The only major thing they did was take Tsingtao. Germany tried to get it to help Mexico attack the US, but this was impossible. What could Japan attack? Even with a huge navy, without a good army(something they lacked even in WW2-they didn't have the logistics to take China or India), they can just take small costal territories.

How would the threat of Japan in the Pacific effect the North Sea showdown?

The Japanese fleet was one of the strongest in the world during WWI. It had twenty-one first- and second-class cruisers, ten superb ncw destroyers, with a reserve of twenty others, as well as twenty battle-ships and battle cruisers.

What effects would this have had on the Allied war efforts?

There is no doubt about Japanese war crimes.

 My point is that the nation of Japan should have the right to bury the remains of the dead with honor. Unless certain remains can get postitively linked to a person who committed a crime, the remains should be honor as a person that answered the call of country and never came home.

So do you believe Hitler killed himself in Berlin? One interesting fact i discovered was Joseph Stalin went to his grave believing Hitler had escaped.

Source:History Channel's show "Mystery Quest"

I don't know about the authority of History Channel. It talks about ghosts and UFO's

Yeah, the History Channel has gone deep into some wierd topics.

I'm reading Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader. It's a good read.

The story is support by personal on the DC-3. The plane encounter a Zero that had them in gun range and spared the plane. Suburo Sakai took credit for the encounter. I read of this in the publication, World War II monthly. It's been several years ago.

Though, nobody could compete with the French and their production of white flags.

Would that be the same French who supplied most of the aircraft and equipment of the AEF in WW1?

Everyone is so quick to stamp and label coward and surrender to France and anyone who is french. Do we forget Napoleon and France's role in WWI?

They should be brought home as heros.

Having spent considerable time studying the behavior of Japanese troops throughout the Pacific Theater, I would not regard any Japanese soldier or sailor, dead or alive, as a hero.  The Australians, yes, the Japanese no.

Next, the Japanese did not dig large rifle pits.  See the following website for information on Japanese defenses.

http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japan/IJA/HB/HB-7.html#VI

It is an online edition of the US Army's Handbook on Japanese Military Forces, 15 September 1944.  Take a look at the chapters covering Japanese island defenses and jungle warfare.  The large square pits could be the beginnings of a square bunker, but also could be latrines.  If they are lined with logs, then likely a bunker, if not, then likely a latrine.  Latrines would make sense if it was the site of a Japanese hospital unit.  If it was a medical unit there, they should find remains of Japanese surgical equipment and medication bottles.  When I was in the New Georgia group of the Solomon Islands in 2002 with National Geographic, I sent the TV Guide reporter and the National Geographic Internet reporter to check out some caves on the island of Kolombangara where a Japanese hospital unit was reported to have been located.  I went over with them prior to their going what they should be looking for out of my own copy of the Handbook.  They reported back that they found pretty much everything I had told them to look out for.  Of course, this hospital was located in a cave, so was much more likely to have a large amount of material preserved, but medicine bottles and surgical kits should still be apparent.

Hopefully, a reasonably good military archaeologist will get out there to examine the site.

Any person in uniform who died for country deserves a proper burial. I'll let God be the Judge of a man's character.

Here is a story of mercy that moved me concerning the famous Japanese ace Saburo Sakai.

"Early in 1942, Sakai was transferred to Tarakan Island in Borneo and fought in the Dutch East Indies. The Japanese high command had instructed fighter patrols to down all enemy aircraft encountered, whether they were armed or not. On a patrol with his Zero over Java, just after shooting down an enemy aircraft, Sakai encountered a civilian Dutch Douglas DC-3 flying at low altitude over dense jungle. Sakai initially assumed it was transporting important people and signaled to its pilot to follow him; the pilot did not obey. Sakai came down and got much closer to the DC-3. He spotted a blonde woman and a young child through the window, along with other passengers. The woman reminded him of Mrs. Martin, an American who had occasionally taught him as a child in middle school and had been good to him. He decided to ignore his orders and flew ahead of the pilot, signaling him to go ahead. The pilot and passengers saluted."[3]

The U.S help in Europe allowed for a secend front. Had the U.S not got involved the U.S.S.R would have 'liberated' all of Western Europe. This would have caused a situation that would have led to a 3rd World War.