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Originally Posted by Daniel Prates
What I was left pondering is: did the japanese really care one bit about the island itself, other than being just a purpose for drawing in the american fleet?
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It is my understanding, from the book, that it was meant (with heavy emphasis on
MEANT) to be a staging point for the eventual invasion of the Hawaiian Islands. They were definitely intent on taking Midway by invasion during the battle. Needless to say that supplying the island would've presented a logistical nightmare for the Japanese.
BTW, for anyone interested in this amazing piece of historical literature (
Shattered Sword: The True Story of the Battle of Midway), I started a thread about it some time ago at the UBI forum.