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Originally Posted by dabrob
T. A. Gardner typed,
The 37mm AA guns are another example. 20 had arrived on Oahu but by Dec.7'41 none of their ammo had arrived and no Americans were yet trained in their use.
It goes on and on and on ... the deeper you dig, the more crap that you find.
Much like an apple which can look good on the outside while still being rotten to the core.
Which brings me to the 12" mortar issue. My readings indicate that the American 12" seacoast mortars exclusively fired high trajectory AP rounds intended to pierce the thinner topdeck armor of any attacking warships.
On Corregidor at least, those AP rounds, when fired at Japanese ground troops, simply punched deep into the soil before exploding and did VERY LITTLE damage at all, as a result. Why then do you repeatedly insist that Oahu's seacoast mortars would do great damage to my ATL Japanese invasion troops ?
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The 37mm ammuntiion had arrived. Unfortunately, it was still aboard ship in Pearl Harbor, awaiting unloading. Re: "the 12" mortar issue." Your readings are highly incorrect. Those 12" mortars fired both AP and HE mortar shells. Granted, there weren't nearly enough of the HE shells on Corregidor, but Seaward Defense Commander Paul Bunker devised a plan to convert the AP rounds into HE by removing the 0.5 second delay pellet from the shell, making it into an instantaneously bursting mortar shell. Those 670-lb shells worked all too effectively against the Japanese during the siege of Bataan's "Battle of the Points" and later, the siege of Corregidor. So you see, those seacoast mortars could and would do great damage to "your" ATL Japanese invasion troops.
Lastly, all of your horse drawn artillery would be without horses as all of them would either be seasick and incapacitated for several weeks, in the act of dying from shipboard fever or already dead from the long sea voyage. Horses die like flies after long periods of being pent up in a closed environment.