Posted on Dec 6, 2021
A US Sailor Showed Japan How to Attack Pearl Harbor
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Was the lesson learned?
A US Sailor Showed Japan How to Attack Pearl Harbor
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MAJ Ken Landgren
I don’t think so. Never read the pilots going on suicide missions. It was really stupid of them to attack us considering our manufacturing capabilities. We caused the Japanese military a lot of attrition. They reached a threshold where the attrition was so great they could not recover, and it was just a matter of time we would defeat them.
I believe the threshold was reached by destroying her aircraft carriers. This resulted in the US owning the seas and the air as we fought to close in in Japan.
I believe the threshold was reached by destroying her aircraft carriers. This resulted in the US owning the seas and the air as we fought to close in in Japan.
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PFC David Foster
MAJ Ken Landgren - I don't know why I was thinking they only had enough fuel to get there, unload their bombs, then kamikaze dive their planes into the American ships.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
Kamikazes were used in the later part of the war. I suppose they did not need the fuel to return. It was kind of sad. Many of the pilots did not want to die, but they had no choice PFC David Foster
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This is the first time I've read about this event.
Taken from the article.
"It should have been a wakeup call for the Navy -- and Pearl Harbor, in particular. Instead, the Navy cried foul and declared the exercise illegal, stating that it would have been on alert if the country were actually at war."
Navy said the exercise was "illegal". What was illegal about an exercise? The exercises proved a weak link in 1932 and again in 1938.
I know it's been 81 years since the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the U.S. fully into WWII. But reading this kind of stuff just makes me angry at the stupidity of some leaders. Based on another recent RP post, I guess the Navy Leadership back then, didn't read the "warning labels" and we lost 2,403 Americans because of Navy Leaderships' failure to respond appropriately.
But hey, that's history now, but there's always a way for stupidity, arrogance, and pride to sneak into to the ranks, even today.
Taken from the article.
"It should have been a wakeup call for the Navy -- and Pearl Harbor, in particular. Instead, the Navy cried foul and declared the exercise illegal, stating that it would have been on alert if the country were actually at war."
Navy said the exercise was "illegal". What was illegal about an exercise? The exercises proved a weak link in 1932 and again in 1938.
I know it's been 81 years since the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the U.S. fully into WWII. But reading this kind of stuff just makes me angry at the stupidity of some leaders. Based on another recent RP post, I guess the Navy Leadership back then, didn't read the "warning labels" and we lost 2,403 Americans because of Navy Leaderships' failure to respond appropriately.
But hey, that's history now, but there's always a way for stupidity, arrogance, and pride to sneak into to the ranks, even today.
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