The two navies planned different campaigns. American forces expected to cross the central Pacific and therefore invested heavily in mobile tenders and forward support. Britain expected to move from India and Australia through the South China and East China Seas, using bases it had long visited and supplied. The historical loss of those bases created a logistical requirement that the prewar plan had not been designed to meet.
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Britain and America approached the Pacific from opposite directions
American plans crossed the central Pacific with mobile support, while British plans advanced from the Indian Ocean through an existing Asian base network.