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The Sinking of USS Liscome Bay | posted in History Up Close on November 24, 2014
Shōkaku and Cavalla, a Confrontation of the WWII Pacific Theater
May 17, 2019 | The History Guy: History Deserves to Be RememberedIn June 1944, one of the largest, most modern and most important ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Shōkaku, encountered a US submarine, Cavalla, out on its first patrol. The History Guy remembers a WWII confrontation in the Pacific Theater. It is history that deserves to be remembered.
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('Civ footnote: the Japanese attack on the US on December 7, 1941, was the most stupid military error in all of WWII, and maybe in the history of warfare. It eclipses even Hitler's Operation Barbarrosa invasion of the USSR, and by a large margin. By the end of the war, our US Navy had *28* aircraft carriers, plus 71 escort carriers, 232 subs, plus 23 battleships, and nearly 6600 more ships of all kinds. US entry into the war also resulted in the construction of more than 30,000 tanks, and a couple hundred thousand aircraft, and lest we forget, about ten percent of the US population in uniform in some capacity, plus an industrial capacity dwarfing the entire Axis powers'.