12-08-20, 03:12 PM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbuna
1941 US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II
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Thus, Pearl Harbor, essentially a tactical copy-cat of the British Taranto raid, is considered a strategic defeat for the Empire. (The carriers and fuel tanks were unscathed) and the Strategic Yankee victory 19 months later at Midway (Set in motion to correct the failure to sink the carriers at Pearl) puts paid to the Empire's aspirations...in the Pacific and Asia. Yamamoto, with the unable assistance of Nagumo at Pearl, broke Prussian von C's rule #3: "never count on your enemy doing what your plan calls for him to do"! Japan was was not strong in all things to begin with(rule 1 as Yamamoto acknowledged in fearing to awaken the 'sleeping American giant') and with four main carriers: Hiryu, Soryu, Akagi, and Kaga, sunk at Midway by '42, could not "increase firepower whenever possible"(rule 2) The 3 year cleanup of the Pacific was a stubborn Bushido motivated slugfest culminating in the nuclear age...
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