[Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders

[J. Forster]

Probably.

-John

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> Their failure or oversight to attack the dry dock installations was a far
> bigger mistake...in retro-retrospect....
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:52 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> 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.
>>
>> -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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >>
>> >> With that in mind, a radio in every plane is a lot less important.
>> >>
>> >> YMMV,
>> >>
>> >> -John
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
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