Wondering, what would stop a Pearl Harbor attack from being made?

[Puster Bill]

Originally Posted by Tessa

Interesting idea there. Though way more ambitous (probably have to be a single mission) is that you learn about Japan's plans to attack Pearl Harbor and are sent with a wolfpack of subs to find their carriers and sink them before they can execute the attack. Could potentially change the US from an ally to a neutral country for the duration of the war.

No it wouldn't. It would just have pissed us off even more.

Would it have effected how we prosecuted the war in the Pacific? Certainly. A shortage of carriers would hurt badly. But it wouldn't be the kind of thing that would knock us out of the war. It wouldn't even have prolonged it, because we still develop the Bomb in 1945. Except maybe instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we hit Tokyo and Berlin.

[KptLt Lindemann]

Originally Posted by Puster Bill

No it wouldn't. It would just have pissed us off even more.

Would it have effected how we prosecuted the war in the Pacific? Certainly. A shortage of carriers would hurt badly. But it wouldn't be the kind of thing that would knock us out of the war. It wouldn't even have prolonged it, because we still develop the Bomb in 1945. Except maybe instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we hit Tokyo and Berlin.

Umm...I think he meant the IJN carriers?