[Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders

[Gary Pewitt]

But until the tanks were replaced with material that had to come all the 
way from the west coast and then filled with oil that had to come in 
many many tankers also from the west coast all while Japanese fleets and 
submarines had free run in the Pacific
Pearl would be totally useless for a year or more ,freeing up the 
Japanese to cause much more harm.   We might well have lost the islands 
to them.



On 2/11/2013 5:52 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> 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.
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> -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,
>>>
>>> -John
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>> Gary Pewitt   N9ZSV
>> 1500 French Prairie Rd
>> Booneville, AR  72927
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Gary Pewitt   N9ZSV
1500 French Prairie Rd
Booneville, AR  72927