Japanese Supersub???!!!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by tater

I agree, nothing more than hyperbole. Bomb the locks? LOL, it would have been fixed quickly. The IJN could have sunk all 3 CVs at Midway, AND taken the island, would have delayed the war by a few months at best. Japan had zero chance of winning the war, even if they themselves thought they had a 10% chance of winning right before they started it—and this required a negotiated peace. Negotiation was required before the new naval construction in the US started coming off the slipways in 1943. PH made any such negotiation moot, it would not happen. Japan loses.

Yeah, I can buy that.....they were hoping to hang on to some of the raw material rich territory they had conquered through a negotiated peace from a position of strength (as they saw/envisaged it).