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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
The size of the base hardly matters. All of our Pacific battleships and carriers were stationed there, and the only BB not there at the time was Colorado, being overhauled at Bremerton, Washington. Pearl Harbor may not have been the biggest basket, but all our Pacific eggs were indeed there.
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Well not all. There is more to military power than just Naval and we weren't the only allied navy in the region. I'm not arguing that Pearl was not the target of 1st choice but it was not everything we had to fight with either (obviously).