[Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders?

[J. Forster]

OK. NP.

-John

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> 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
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> -----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?
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>> Another case of where the Brits prove there superiority?
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> 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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