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To: Bull Snipe
You don't think the air strip or dockyards had anything of value there apart from ships?

In addition to the property values of that base, Pearl Harbor is strategically important. It's our way station in the middle of the Pacific.

1,396 posted on 02/04/2020 1:21:03 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

dry docks without ships are of little direct value. Airstrips equipped with obsolete aircraft are of little value.
Without the battleships, the carriers, cruisers and destroyers of the Pacific fleet parked at Pearl Harbor, the IJN would not have wasted their time with an attack on Pearl Harbor.


1,402 posted on 02/04/2020 7:01:14 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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