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To: laplata

I think they were only thinking about a quick, devasting destruction of American Naval capability caught at Pearl Harbor so that the US would relent and ease their embargoes and restrictions against Japan and let them take the South Pacific/Asia for resources as they had been.

Their mistake was twofold. 1) Their spying did not account for the absence of three American Carriers (IIRC) based out of Pearl Harbor, and 2) Yamamoto’s failure to launch additional waves of planes while they had the chance for fear of their A/Cs being discovered.


18 posted on 06/04/2022 7:58:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

You’re right. And they didn’t hit any fuel storage tanks.


19 posted on 06/04/2022 8:07:37 AM PDT by laplata ("They want each crisis to take it's toll)
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To: Gaffer

That would have been Nagumo. Yamamato wasn’t on the carriers.


36 posted on 06/04/2022 1:41:45 PM PDT by ealgeone
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