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This is something silly that I've noticed a lot.
Why, please tell me why, do people assume that if Japan won both Coral Sea and Midway, that the US would have zero carriers left to fight them off?
Even after Midway, USS Saratoga, which had been stuck in drydock for several months from a torpedo attack in January 1942, showed up a day or two after the battle. She delivered replacement planes to Enterprise and Hornet.
USS Wasp showed up from the Atlantic at the end of June 1942, and went on to fight at Guadalcanal?
This says nothing of the cruisers and destroyers that would still be around, and several battleships, mostly old ones, that where still available.
This says nothing of, what, 400 odd land based aircraft on Hawaii, and the fact that if need be, Nimitz could likely call in more from California or elsewhere in the US mainland if he had enough warning and enough time.
Why, please tell me why, do people assume that if Japan won both Coral Sea and Midway, that the US would have zero carriers left to fight them off?
Even after Midway, USS Saratoga, which had been stuck in drydock for several months from a torpedo attack in January 1942, showed up a day or two after the battle. She delivered replacement planes to Enterprise and Hornet.
USS Wasp showed up from the Atlantic at the end of June 1942, and went on to fight at Guadalcanal?
This says nothing of the cruisers and destroyers that would still be around, and several battleships, mostly old ones, that where still available.
This says nothing of, what, 400 odd land based aircraft on Hawaii, and the fact that if need be, Nimitz could likely call in more from California or elsewhere in the US mainland if he had enough warning and enough time.