Hio. This is just an exercise in "what if". regarding a possible invasion of Hawaii by Japan, in December 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbour as percursor. The IJN attacks Pearl, then the army invades, with the IJN covering.
Now, before you bring out the torches and pitchforks, please read on. Every related whatif I've seen shows such in invasion being carried out at the same time as all the other ops Japan did in OTL. This, afaik, is so much ASB it's laughable at best; Japan did not have the troops and logistics to carry this out, specially fuel. Some minor variations are ocasionally made but, essentially, the authors have Japan invade/attack everthing they did as well as invade Hawaii... so... yeah... hahaha.
My question is this: what if Japan doesn't do all of this? What if it's decided to stomp the US completely out of the Pacific, by taking over is primary base, Hawaii, as the only priority?
Send just enough to the Philippines to raid it, just to destroy it's aircraft, ships & facilities, ignore Guam and Wake (they are too weak and isolated to be an issue). The other major change would be not to attack the British Empire (not even Hong Kong), as well as the Dutch colony (ie, Indonesia) at this time. Any such attack would be left for latter, after the US was forced into an armistice, having lost Haway (supposedly, ofc).
So, if all those ships, troops and specially fuel was diverted, could it have been enough to support an invasion of Hawaii?
(please ignore any strategic/political consequences, such as this avoids bringing the UK a war in Asia, which they could not really afford in 41/42; I'm just trying to get a grasp on the logistics)
Now, before you bring out the torches and pitchforks, please read on. Every related whatif I've seen shows such in invasion being carried out at the same time as all the other ops Japan did in OTL. This, afaik, is so much ASB it's laughable at best; Japan did not have the troops and logistics to carry this out, specially fuel. Some minor variations are ocasionally made but, essentially, the authors have Japan invade/attack everthing they did as well as invade Hawaii... so... yeah... hahaha.
My question is this: what if Japan doesn't do all of this? What if it's decided to stomp the US completely out of the Pacific, by taking over is primary base, Hawaii, as the only priority?
Send just enough to the Philippines to raid it, just to destroy it's aircraft, ships & facilities, ignore Guam and Wake (they are too weak and isolated to be an issue). The other major change would be not to attack the British Empire (not even Hong Kong), as well as the Dutch colony (ie, Indonesia) at this time. Any such attack would be left for latter, after the US was forced into an armistice, having lost Haway (supposedly, ofc).
So, if all those ships, troops and specially fuel was diverted, could it have been enough to support an invasion of Hawaii?
(please ignore any strategic/political consequences, such as this avoids bringing the UK a war in Asia, which they could not really afford in 41/42; I'm just trying to get a grasp on the logistics)