Well, guess we will have to live with a permanent disagreement over this...
You’ll have the advantage over me since, at my age (89), the disagreement will not last more than 10-15 years...
OTOH, as those of us remaining who lived through WWII go to ground temperature, history revisionists can run free...
What are you getting at?
You wrote about Japanese subs:
They focused on our fleet because there were no long columns of supply ships bringing required raw war-fighting resources to the American mainland...
How did we get men and material into the Pacific Theater other than by long columns of supply ships which the Japanese subs essentially ignored because they were "trophy hunting" American/British battleships and carriers??