[Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders

[J. Forster]

FWIW, the Japanese placed a lot more emphasis on accomplishing the
mission, then returning home. They certainly mounted one-way sortis.

With that in mind, a radio in every plane is a lot less important.

YMMV,

-John

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> Perhaps one of their blunders was not realizing the importance of radio
> communications.
>
>
> On 2/10/2013 7:47 PM, Hue Miller wrote:
>> I am aware that some planes didn't have radios, maybe only the flight
>> leader
>> having a radio, and fighter pilots making use of hand signals, and
>> fighter
>> pilots sometimes removing radios on their own, as useless weight (low
>> powered single channel radios not unlike the Rangers we were talking
>> about ),
>> but I would think for a mission this important, they'd see to
>> radio communications. Maybe not.  -Hue
>> -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013
>> 4:16 PM
>> To: Hue Miller Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders
>> Hello Hue,
>>
>> To save weight, many Japanese aircraft did not have any radios
>> installed.
>>
>> 73, Bruce WA8TNC
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