War Topic: what would YOU have done re Pearl Harbor?

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

That would be true. Most of the US is a proud nation so I doubt that would even happen today, given more equal military terms such as found back then.

-S

Good point - as I run this scene in my head, I see Japan sending in an invasion force to take Hawaii, and another force taking Midway, securing their ports and bases for use by the IJN. Using them as a base, the only thing the US would have left would be to use carriers to transport planes into the battlefield to try to take Hawaii back.

My point was that it would have been 10 times harder for the US to recover had Hawaii been taken and held.

I agree with you, however, that the US would have never begged for peace. It just would have taken much longer (I think) for the US to have won the war in the Pacific had they lost Hawaii from the get-go.