[ARC5] Ht-4 Query

[Dennis Monticelli]

Another reason why the Japanese lost at Midway was their arrogance.  Two
aircraft carriers were damaged in the Battle of Coral Sea.  One lost most
of its senior air crew and the other had physical damage. They lost
irreplaceable senior aircrew on other carriers as well. They could have
patched up the damaged carrier in situ, transferred some flight crew among
the ships and involved those two carriers at Midway to bring the total to
nine vs the very small number of US carriers they expected to face.  But
instead they brought only seven  thinking they had this thing in the bag
while we massed all four of ours along with a goodly number of land based
bombers.  That plus a little luck with the timing of our bomb hits ended up
leveling the playing field after the last bubbles from the fourth lost
Japanese carrier.

Dennis AE6C

Yamamoto said of his sneak attack plan:  "I will run wild for 6 mo after
the attack.  After that all bets are off."  And that is pretty much what
happened.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

> 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
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