SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - War Topic: what would YOU have done re Pearl Harbor?

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Originally Posted by Zayphod

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Originally Posted by micky1up

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Originally Posted by bradclark1

You are wrong. The sneak attack on Pearl made it impossible to go for a truce or ceasefire. Our mindset over such a dastardly deed and our production capacity made it a slam dunk that Japan would be defeated. We had more of everything. Simple as that. They also could never have invaded Hawaii simply because of logistics.

and i suppose america would have told a potential enemy the time and place of attack do not call it sneaky it makes perfect military sense to make a surprise attack

Actually, they didn't "intend" for it to be a surprise attack. They notice was several hours late because of the time it took to type it all up. Based on that movie, the guy at the typewriter needed another course in speed-typing. :p

They wanted to give at least 30 minutes notice just to be on the safe side. What the Japanese government hadn't counted on, of course, was some guy by the name of Murphy, and his laws, screwing up the best laid plans of mice.

Had notice been given, I think the US population would have been a tad upset about the attack, but not surprised (probably expecting it). The fact that it turned INTO a surprise changed the way we felt about it, and of course, the rest is history.

you correct about the timing snag but some of the previuosly intercepted telex's to the jap emabasy indicated that the attack was automatically going to happen the timing would have announced at exactly the same time as the attack was scheduled so it still would have been a surprise regaurdless