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Old 12-07-13, 01:27 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
One cannot help but be impressed at the level of planning and care that went into this attack, however ultimately it was a foolhardy endeavour. As Admiral Hara Tadaichi put it "We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war."

A salute to the fallen.
The attack would have been a much bigger success had the flat tops been there but that still wouldn't have changed the outcome of the war, maybe lengthen it a bit.
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