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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
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Originally Posted by fatty
Blast Pearl and then keep going on to seize Panama.
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Why? Pacific coast shipbuilding industries were more than sufficient to make up for the numbers lost in Pearl. Seizing Panama results in the taking of a relatively insignificant facility while dangerously overextending Japan's already overextended forces. |
Which brings us back to my question earlier about how many IJN carriers were in the current fleet Dec 6th, 1941?