pearl harbor

[VAE VICTUS]

at pearl harbor could the jappos have crippled the pacific fleet if they had bombed the hell out of oil reserves and dry docks,instead of focusing on the ships?and didnt they have another flight ready to do that but some admiral decided to get the hell out?

[Papewaio]

Wouldn't matter, the Aircraft carriers were all not in port on a training exercise... either very lucky or they did crack the Japanese codes.

[CBR]

If they had bombed the oil depots it would have set back the US effort by perhaps a year but it would not have given Japan a victory anyway as their industry was completely outclassed by USA.


CBR

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I think all WWII documents have been released haven't they? So it would've been luck...

Well Pearl Harbor turned out to be a blessing in disguise in a way, as I don't think the navy had fully accepted the effectiveness of the carrier. Pearl Harbor both proved the effectiveness of carrier launched aircraft, but also forced the navy to embrace them as their battleships had been devestated and the three carriers were the only ships left to take the core position in the fleet.

[Soulforged]

I don't know you man but calling any kind of people slaughtering a blessing is god them doubtful at least. I think you have played games and readed books too much. Even being objective i can reject your apreciation, the attack on Pearl Harbor meaned a lot of things (like the decive enter of US on the war) but non of those was a blessing, the japanese almost erased all kind of importance of humanity above all kind of honor (that obsolete and irrational belief that honor is more important, never an idea is more important than actual life) and the yankees seeing their fellows dying defensless, drawning and being peppered and burned, i don't think that there's any argument that can be employed to call that a blessing even a diguised one.

[PanzerJaeger]

It was very much a blessing to many millions of Chinese and other southern asians. Also, his point about the carriers was accurate.

[Soulforged]

Ohhh of course it was a blessing.... Hiroshima is a good example... the most terrible event provoked by man in all the hitory. Four days later Nagasaki too. Please i don't want to go any further on this subject. Just don't call it a blessing. Or do it what the hell.