When Yamamoto was asked for his assesment of a war with the US if Japan got in the first punch he said the IJN would run wild for a year but the correlation of forces would eventualy crush us.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve’’. Admiral Yamamoto’s answer on the success of the Pearl Harbor attack.
51 posted on 06/03/2012 6:23:59 PM PDT by jmacusa
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