Wake Island is a defiant yell at the Japanese...
"We will not go meekly and quietly into your grasp"
The days following Pearl Harbor found this defiant Spirit break out
The Dutch and the British began to blow the oil installations and info structure which the Japanese overconfidently calculated would be theirs.
The fight was one of withdrawl..but with a strong sense of gratification and morale.
Wake Island could not be seen as anything but a costly chess move by Japan.
If this is what resulted by limited resources of the enemy...what would it cost when they could put equal strength into battle.
Japans plans to obtain a outcome which would see a deal cut with the U.S. Government were beginning to go wrong.
In so many ways..the aftermath of battle saw the Japanese demonstrate their cruelty...in a sense..a national tantraum..and a marker as to what these people were made of.
Japans command structure revealed petty contention and rivalry....the Army looking to zenith the Navy as per the Glory that was supposed in their twisted minds.
Wake Island hurt the Naval commands voice before the Emperor...the Army garnering the nod to go out and secure Glory for the Empire.
Hong Kong..Singapore,
The Army would bring a better prize before their Emperor and bolster the Nations momentum or sense of Superiority over the Allies.
Yet from this early period..Japans doom was to be seen in the unfolding.
Bizarre thinking saw military asset and strength assigned to useless Islands and atolls.
"Their confused....we've got them"!
Late 42 and early 43 would see a high percentage loss ratio for the U.S. in the Pacific...mostly old Naval assets and battle outcomes managed by Commanders whose thinking was not up to par with the fluidity of modern war.
Yet in a few months ..the new thinking would appear...The carrier Battle Group...the Jeep carrier and aviation projection.
America would smash Japan at every turn...and rout them were ever they stood.
Keeping Japans population decieved as to what was occuring was the margin now for the Emperor.
His guts would turn at every report comming in.
