[yarddog]

I watched a You Tube video by a guy who I think was German. It lasted something like 48 minutes. A lot of reasons we won but I think the main one was the Japanese greatly underestimated the American’s aggressiveness.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Another thing was the American carriers had good fire/damage control and were built with a system to suppress fires. The Japanese carriers, on the other hand, were death traps and they did not have a good system for putting out fires.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Logistics - it was all about the logistics. We managed to move men and matériel over enormous distances to face down the Japs. There's plenty written about battles but little of the planning and effort to make them happen and support it. Some of the most brilliant minds in the military worked like crazy to make it happen. It was rough out there for a while at first since the Pacific was secondary to the European theater - it was like "here's a piece of string, a pair of pliers and a ham sandwich, go get'em boys!". But after more support & supply was authorized it was hell on wheels for the Japs after that.