FYI escorting fuel tankers for China and by extension South Korea and Japan could help explain how the Soviets managed to get their forces to Alaska and the Canadian Pacific coast - i.e. that the USN had to make such a big commitment to protecting shipping to support their forces in Korea and to escort tankers and other supply ships for China (and probably South Korea and Japan as well) that there werent enough to cover the North Pacific adequately - and that the Soviets took advantage of that to get their forces over for the invasion of Alaska and Canada
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