To: Retain Mike
However, the raid proved a crucial moral victory demonstrating Americans could do the impossible even if their battle fleet was blasted to wreckage, and they were losing an army in the Philippines. The Imperial Navy suffered a devastating loss of face, because Admiral Yamamoto had guaranteed the Emperor that Americans would never attack their home islands. IIRC, the raid caused the Japanese to recall their fleet in the Indian Ocean that had crushed all British opposition.
24 posted on
04/18/2013 6:30:33 PM PDT by
DeaconBenjamin
(A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
To: DeaconBenjamin
And coincidentally Admiral Yamamoto was shot down on the same date, 18 April, in 1943.
30 posted on
04/19/2013 9:57:33 AM PDT by
csmusaret
(America is more divided today , not because of the problems we face but because of Obama's solutions)
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