[Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Mon Feb 11 18:52:57 EST 2013


It takes far less time to build an oil tank than a battleship. They are
just steel plates and welds or rivets and a few pipes and valves and
pumps.

-John

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> Their worst blunder was not sending in the third wave and taking out all
> of the oil tanks which would have make Pearl useless as a navel base.
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> On 2/10/2013 10:03 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> FWIW, the Japanese placed a lot more emphasis on accomplishing the
>> mission, then returning home. They certainly mounted one-way sortis.
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>> With that in mind, a radio in every plane is a lot less important.
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>> YMMV,
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>> -John
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