Gotta JUST LOVE how our masters in DC spend years demilitarizing the US, just to do just about everything possible to get into wars with Russia and China.
I’ll listen to this, but from all I know, if the Japanese had launched the third wave and hit the fuel storage and/or ship repair facilities, we would have had to withdraw our forces to the West Coast.
A subsequent landing force could have occupied Oahu. West coast cities could have been subject to shelling to terrorize the population. We still would have beaten them, but it could have taken years longer. And what if the additional effort needed to recover and fight back had caused a lessening of the effort we put into the “Germany first” policy? What if D Day had been delayed another year? What more breathing room would have given the Germans the chance to develop the A-bomb?
I think what Jaman learned was that:
YOU CANNON DEFEAT USA IN A WAR and it was foolish to think you could.
Lesson learned.
My sister was married to a Navy man who’s wife had just given birth to a beautiful daughter in November. They were stationed in Pearl Harbor. When the attach hid, there was chaos.
When the attach happened, they were told to evacuate. My Sister, living on Diamond Head, had to take one year old, on a journey back to the East Coast where our entire family lived.
We, of course, welcomed her back with open arms, but not knowing what was happening to her husband, was a BIG problem.
She and her adorable daughter came home, lived with us until the war was over.
My sister went home to God, but my wonderful niece is still with us.
I was seven years old when she made me a niece.
And I love her.