Subject: Re: Pearl Harbor Day, 2020 by GRIS on 2020/12/7 23:32:24
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j3studio wrote:
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GRIS wrote:
TRULY A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. BUT IT MUST BE ADMITTED, MASTERFULLY DONE.
By a Harvard man, no less. Sigh …
… for all of the carnage, the USN had two positives:
1) By blind luck, the carriers were at sea
2) The Japanese neglected to go after the oil storage in any meaningful way
FROM WHAT I READ THE JAP NAVY WAS ADDICTED TO COMPLEX, MULTI-PHASE, MULTI-DIRECTION OPERATIONS. THEY WERE DEVASTATING WHEN THEY WORKED---ALSO DEVASTATING WHEN THEY DIDN'T WORK. APPARENTLY, THE KISS PRINCIPAL WAS TO THE IJN UNKNOWN.
YAMAMOTO WAS AN INTERESTING CHARACTER, KNEW HE COULD NOT WIN, STILL DID HIS DAMNEST.
