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Originally Posted by Daniel Prates
Really, they did. I read this not only in WSCs book, but also in a ww2 bombers compendium which has an article on the G3M. Now, it sure was an ill-informed assesment.
However, they were indeed still to find out the decisiveness of air power by then. The Pearl Harbour attack was not 48-hours old by then, and it would be a lot of time till the coral sea engagement, so it's possible they were overconfident about their capital ship's survival abilities.
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I wasn't saying you were wrong, think I said the Admiral thought he could stay out of range of JP airpower, but it made no sense in light of the air raids on Singy, he was closing range, not getting further away. I'm not sure what he was thinking, prolly that air power couldn't sink a BB. I know two JP search planes spotted the Z force, but not sure if the ships saw them, if they did that should tell them something.
Also, the Z force was to attack the JP landing group, but the JP's knowing the force was coming turned the majority of it back to port Cam., so it wouldn't have been there.
Also wonder why many of the other ships there from several nations didn't join the force.
Early war ego and fubar...