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Originally Posted by Oberon
Now, you can pick apart Turtledoves knowledge of military equipment, but even he has to admit that supplying Pearl Harbour after invading it would have been a logistical nightmare and would have done little but pad the Pacific war out by a year maximum.
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All excellent points. If the Japanese had taken Hawaii there may or may not have been sufficient supplies to feed them. Whether or not they had to ferry supplies for thousands of miles, the US submarine force would have made their lives miserable. Imagine even half of the 21 subs based at Pearl Harbor now operating out of San Francisco, with new boats coming into service every month. With a much shorter distance and travel time they could have operated in Hawaiian waters for great lengths of time, and the Japanese garrisons there would have had a very tough time of it.