How would the Pacific Theatre play out if Yamamoto's planned

>>2497482
Still would have got their asses beat

>>2497489
Well no shit, but how much more protracted would the war be and how different would the end result be?

>>2497503

Not much. The critical factor is ratio of force, not where the line happens to be at any given point. The U.S. expanded from Tarawa to the Marshalls to the Marianas to the Bonins in a year and a halfish, scything right through everything the Japanese had taken.

>>2497482
Even worse. Stretch supply lines mean the US submarine force can murder transports even more. Meanwhile, the IJN is forced to expend even more massive amounts of their fuel reserves in order to contest any US advance against their new perimeter. It's a textbook overextension.

>>2497934
Pretty much this. Only if some random volcano had destroyed the Hawaiian Islands Japan could continues fought after 1942