80th anniversary of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Aktungbby · 12-07-21, 03:50 PM

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/20...-pearl-harbor/

<A flight of U.S. Boeing B-17 bombers from California was caught up in the air raid on Pearl Harbor. In this photo taken from one of the B-17s, a pair of Japanese Aichi D3A Val dive bombers, distinguished by their fixed landing gear, are seen heading for targets on Oahu. As Commander Wallace points out astutely, the failure to sink the strategic carriers at Pearl Harbor would put 'paid' to Japan's poorly concieved strategic goals of an Asiatic Empire. After 1942, the staged grudging Bushido Code retreat to the atomic 'rising suns' over Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked three years of fruitless holding on to the snatch-and-grab empire-building tactics of Hideki Togo. A pity about the aerial assassination of poor ADM. Yamamoto though (Operation Vengeance). It was perceived that Hitler was so poor a commander that attempts to assassinate him ( S.O.E.'s Operation Foxley ) were cancelled- Der Führer's incompetence was actually helping the Allies!!

Given Yamamoto's two screwups at Pearl and Midway points up three irrefutable rules of warfare: break the enemy's code(Enigma & Purple Machine); have an 'inside man' to screw up their own military plans; and have a bigger bank account than both opponents combined....

As with the Fuhrer, in history's 20-20 hindsight, Yamamoto, with his unaggressive subordinate Nagumo, was perhaps a decent tactician but a failed strategist.

12-07-21, 03:50 PM	#8
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,997 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Losing 14% of your attack aircraft (48 outta 350) ain't real good!?? https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/20...-pearl-harbor/ <A flight of U.S. Boeing B-17 bombers from California was caught up in the air raid on Pearl Harbor. In this photo taken from one of the B-17s, a pair of Japanese Aichi D3A Val dive bombers, distinguished by their fixed landing gear, are seen heading for targets on Oahu. As Commander Wallace points out astutely, the failure to sink the strategic carriers at Pearl Harbor would put 'paid' to Japan's poorly concieved strategic goals of an Asiatic Empire. After 1942, the staged grudging Bushido Code retreat to the atomic 'rising suns' over Hiroshima and Nagasaki marked three years of fruitless holding on to the snatch-and-grab empire-building tactics of Hideki Togo. A pity about the aerial assassination of poor ADM. Yamamoto though (Operation Vengeance). It was perceived that Hitler was so poor a commander that attempts to assassinate him ( S.O.E.'s Operation Foxley ) were cancelled- Der Führer's incompetence was actually helping the Allies!! Given Yamamoto's two screwups at Pearl and Midway points up three irrefutable rules of warfare: break the enemy's code(Enigma & Purple Machine); have an 'inside man' to screw up their own military plans; and have a bigger bank account than both opponents combined.... As with the Fuhrer, in history's 20-20 hindsight, Yamamoto, with his unaggressive subordinate Nagumo, was perhaps a decent tactician but a failed strategist. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!! Last edited by Aktungbby; 12-08-21 at 01:13 AM.