[Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders?

[Ray Fantini]

Sorry, not trying to be offensive. Just another case of my small minded mentality getting the best of me. Perhaps poor choice of words.
Ray F

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Forster [mailto:jfor at quikus.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:20 PM
To: Ray Fantini
Cc: Joe Connor; Military Surplus Mail List
Subject: RE: [Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders?

> Another case of where the Brits prove there superiority?

I didn't say that, but certainly many of the critical inventions of WW II came out of the UK. Chain Home routinely detected, plotted, and defended against Nazi air strikes long before the US RADARs in Hawaii were caught off guard on Dec 7th.

-John

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> Not certain but
> think all modern integrated weapon systems can trace their linage back 
> to the HMS Dreadnaught? Think it was the first ship with what would be 
> considered integrated fire control system.  No my point is that Coral 
> Sea and Midway were good examples of where everything worked together, 
> they did not invent the ideas but they applied them well as opposed to 
> Pearl Harbor or something like the battle of Savo island where the use 
> of radar, communication system and ultimately command itself failed.
> RF
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