What if, after the US had broken the Japanese code and realized that the Aleutian Islands invasion was a diversion, the Japanese decided at the last minute to save Midway for later and shift all the forces for an unopposed suprise invasion of Alaska?
What if, after the US had broken the Japanese code and realized that the Aleutian Islands invasion was a diversion, the Japanese decided at the last minute to save Midway for later and shift all the forces for an unopposed suprise invasion of Alaska?
If you're planning to invade a tundra with little strategic value and completely exposed to superior enemy forces with no logistics whatsoever, you're going to need to plan a littl bit further than 'at the last minute'. The Americans and Canadians would be surprised but they'd spend longer laughing.
What if, after the US had broken the Japanese code and realized that the Aleutian Islands invasion was a diversion, the Japanese decided at the last minute to save Midway for later and shift all the forces for an unopposed suprise invasion of Alaska?
This makes no sense at all. In what way could an invasion of Alaska serve Japanese strategic purposes?