[ARC5] Ht-4 Query

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 24 Oct 2014 at 17:22, Joel R Roberts wrote:

> battles. The Carriers were out training away from the area, and were 
> spared the fate of the Arizona. Instead they were able to pound the 
> Japanese fleet soon after in the Battle of Midway........Joel   KB0FPT

What the Japanese very seriously "screwed up" on was that they not only 
missed our immense fuel storage tanks, but didn't even think of them.

After the war, some of the Jap officers were asked why they missed those, 
and they simply stared in open-mouthed amazement that they hadn't even 
thought of them.

If those had been destroyed, almost nothing on our side would have been 
able to move in the Pacific for several months.

Secondly, one of the  main reasons we beat them at the battle of Midway 
was because we had read their coded messages, having broken their 
military code of the time even before the war began.

Ken W7EKB