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  1. US Alert in Pacific December 1941

    Why would they have any such evasion orders? Why, if they had such orders, were they disobeyed? Post war, why did NO ONE who participated in the battle mention that fact while being questioned by the USSBS? Did you even glance at my post on budget. The Congress was slow to get behind...
  2. Washington Treaty: Japan says no, America builds up, the UK...does what?

    Japan changed codes on a regular basis. Unfortunately for Toyko, American and British codebreakers were quite effective. There were times that the American and British teams were readiing decrypted messages BEFORE the Japanese could simply decode them.
  3. Washington Treaty: Japan says no, America builds up, the UK...does what?

    Fortifying the Baatan Peninsula, Guam, Wake, and even sandspecks like Midway, would be cheaper than a couple of battleships (maybe even ONE battleship). Capital ships were a capital investment. In any case, you probable see a couple of the BB & BC completed by both the U.S. & UK. Japan...
  4. what if Yamamoto survived world war II?

    Factually incorrect Shokaku 24 August 1942: Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Light damage from bomb fragments. 5 September 1942: Arrive at Truk. 11 October 1942: Depart Truk for Guadalcanal operations. 26 October 1942: Battle of Santa Cruz; heavily damaged by bombs. Four, possibly even...
  5. what if Yamamoto survived world war II?

    Bollocks. Again. General Yamashita was in the Philippines for exactly TEN DAYS before the American landing on Leyte. When he declared Manila an Open City and withdrew his troops (in order to spare the civilians from the house to house fighting) his IJN counterpart Admiral Iwabuchi, in defiance...
  6. US Alert in Pacific December 1941

    Bollocks. The Battle Line being AT Pearl Harbor was already an expensive move, homeport was in California. FDR moved the BB's to Pearl as part of the American show of resolve. In 1940 the Congress had approved a near doubling of the USN Budget from $674M to 1.1 Billion and then quadrupled...
  7. US Alert in Pacific December 1941

    The U.S. had a very strong sense that the Japanese were going to move in the Pacific, but the smart (hell, ALL) money was on the Philippines, with subsidary attacks against Wake (which offered a way to interdict the Mandates) and Guam (within the Mandates) possible. Pearl was considered to be...
  8. Miracle At Midway Analysis

    An interesting question, especially given the fact that taking Midway, as planned by the Japanese, was not even close to a sure thing and that holding Midway would have been nearly impossible for the Japanese, even if they, despite the long odds, managed to take the Islands. BTW: The two IJN...
  9. Yamamoto is placed in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor

    This is, hands down, the single most humorous thing posted on this board during my membership here. This, however, may be the most tragic.
  10. what if Yamamoto survived world war II?

    Actually Dougout Doug was able to Danny Deever the General because he tried him in the Philippines. The trials in Japan were a bit more above board, rather like their ETO counterparts.
  11. Miracle At Midway Analysis

    Zuikaku was NOT damaged at Coral Sea. Her airwing was torn to pieces. Had she been an American carrier, she would have sailed with the Kido Butai to Midway with a replacement, albeit scratch, airwing. Since YAMAMOTO chose not to do this, she was in the Home Islands when most needed. There was...
  12. Yamamoto is placed in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor

    I was thinking the same thing. I did like his reply slightly up the thread where he stated: I have to wonder, with easy availablity of accurate data on the 'Net, especially on WW II Warbirds, how he keeps screwing up things as simple as aircraft speed and introduction dates. Somewhat sad...
  13. WI Pearl Harbour

    The ATTACK started at 07:55 hrs. The radar sighting was a 07:02 hrs. As far as Ballard, you were already corrected on his participation in your Pearl Harbor thread. If you want to post threads without any rational support, it's one thing, but telling other, in their threads, things that you...
  14. what if Yamamoto survived world war II?

    Yamamoto would almost certainly NOT have been executed for war crimes. Much like Rader or Dontiz he would have, at most, received a prison term. He may have even been able to avoid that, given the lack of unrestricted submarine warfare by the IJN, although the behavior of some of his...
  15. Miracle At Midway Analysis

    Yep. Yamamoto forgot that he was Commander in Chief & acted like he was still a tactical commander. He didn't LOSE the battle, but he did throw away any chance he had to alter it as soon as he went to sea. He also was surprising out of touch with operational realities during the action...
  16. WI: Bat bomb ready for Doolittle raid?

    I've always seen the whole Bat Bomb project as some devious plan by it's creators to stay in the 'States and out of combat during the war, not unlike some of the odder German projects. That or a drunken goof that got bigger than anyone expected.
  17. WI Disaster at Pearl Harbor

    A success level like this is well on the outer edges of probability, although not completely impossible (although any success by the Vindicator with the 1941 torpedo trigger design is a REAL long shot). A dusk attack, when the Kido Butai is expecting her own aircraft to be returning home, and...
  18. WI The Flying Tigers attacked Japan?

    They came across the Kido Butai? And told no one? Moreover, were allowed to go on their way without be attacked or molested in any way? Sure.:rolleyes:
  19. WI Pearl Harbour

    Welcome to the assyulm. :) You have asked what is probably the biggest WI regarding the entire Pacific War, followed fairly closely by Midway WI's (although we have beat then Midway question to death over the last couple of months). To go with the short version of the answer to your...
  20. Yamamoto is placed in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor

    Why thank you for the recommendations, I will pull them from my bookcase and review their well worn pages. My question was, and remains, how the midget subs at Pearl Harbor are related, in any meaningful way, to the Archerfish? For that matter, how is the sudden decision, driven by...
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