Japanese focus on United States
Most of the scenarios I've come up with have the Japanese ignoring the United States and going after the British and Dutch colonies instead in the Pacific, but what if the Japanese fought the...
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robdab wrote: Glenn239, Its funny that you label me as an eternal optimist when I have just been called an eternal pesimist over on a "peak-oil" discussion board that I frequent. If you would just...
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this is the most assingnine post ever, y is it allowed to progress only 2-3 ppl r posting NUFF SAID BOB
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Electric Joe, You wrote the following, to which i have added my replies preceeded with a ">", That's not the only problem with the tankers. A bulk carrier isn't necessarily fitted to fuel naval...
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robdab wrote: Electric Joe, You wrote the following, to which i have added my replies preceeded with a ">", That's not the only problem with the tankers. A bulk carrier isn't necessarily fitted to...
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To further bury it: here are transit times of Kido Butai at various stages, in comparison to the distance between Oahu and Kwajalein. 1st 6 days of Pearl Raid (to Dec 2nd) - translates 5.8 days Last 6...
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*Sigh* So now you have a to scale map showing every zig and zag for all the Kido Butai's travels up until the were destroyed at Midway. Where pray tell did you get that?? Does it also explain why the...
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Electric Joe, They're going to need to convert a heck of a lot more than seven tankers, Rob. >Yeah, I know. Thats why my previous post said 7 plus a dozen more.The fact that Japan attacked anyway...
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glenn239, jtjohn1, You two seem to have reached an impasse so why don't you just "agree to disagree" on the whole Hawaiian logistics issue for the time being ? Perhaps we can invite someone like Mark...
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In regards to closing this topic, I would like to protest since, although most of this topic has revolved around an invasion of Oahu, the thread was originally not started for the sole purpose of...
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robdab wrote: Electric Joe, They're going to need to convert a heck of a lot more than seven tankers, Rob. >Yeah, I know. Thats why my previous post said 7 plus a dozen more.The fact that Japan...
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Electric Joe wrote: Any debate can be extended ad nauseum simply by never ceasing to debate it. That says nothing about the merits of the argument, only the stubbornness of the poster. You think this...
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You haven't been here long enough to remember a fiction piece I started that a lot of people looked on as my idea, but I always credited to the person who asked the question that started me writing on...
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Personally, if it was me, I'd invite the enemy into my own backyard, and whack him there. The problem with this strategy is that the invitation would go unanswered. The USN comes when the USN will...
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So now you have a to scale map showing every zig and zag for all the Kido Butai's travels up until the were destroyed at Midway. Where pray tell did you get that? You've been swearing up and down for...
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Why do you think he's trying to land on Maui now instead of Oahu? The Japanese would land on the outlying islands in accordance with their amphibious doctrine, first in order to establish local air...
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It would take time, first of all, and that time would leave the Luzon Strait vulnerable and Luzon's airfields undominated during a period that the IJN's and IJA's planners simply would not tolerate...
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It was nascent and extremely crude. Its only virtue was that it was out of range of Formosa and made a relatively safe dispersal field. Facilities were so poor that the aircraft had to return to Clark...
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To be fair to glenn239, his planA does call for landings on Oahu AFTER the outer islands are providing land based air support and security from US carrier counter-attacks. How his plan evolved into...
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Yeah this needs to be closed Glen You've been swearing up and down for pages now that Kido Butai would take 8-9 days to transit to the Marshalls. Now we are informed that you've not even bothered...
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