Thread: what if........The 5 aircraft carriers were based in Pearl Harbor and Japan sunk them
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Old September 12th, 2006, 08:45 AM
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Carriers or oil tanks, it would just mean a longer deadline for Japan. The production potential of the USA was simply mind boggling.

The Japanese outran their supplies in the Pacific didn't they? So I don't see that it would help them too much.

It might have reprecussions in Europe though. If the Americans got an even bloodier nose in the Pacific, and the Japanese were pressing south. Maybe the Americans would not go for Kill Germany First Strategy.
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