Re: Force Z
Wow... Indeed an Excellent source of extremely vivid and detailed information. I have Churchill volumes and remember all the quotes, "on that we rested", "the Circus moves on", and the one about how he slept on it while the ships sailed to their doom.
No first rate air power in an area that absolutely depended upon it, and only two of a predicted eight capitol ships (and escorts) to defend the region. I know not available, but then it begs the "why" so little (ships & escorts), with no air cover were deployed and on the attack.
This and other incidents stick in my mind since childhood. Portraying barbarity, tenacity, and total lack of compassion (ruthlessness) of an invader.
Pearl Harbor, Singapore, Nanking, Chungking, Tarawa, Wake, the be headings of Doolittle Raiders, Bataan Death March, and the Banzai Charges & Kamikaze's of the war.
A (in my opinion) "just" anger, combined with a well founded "fear", combining for a (quote from Yamamato) ..........Terrible Resolve.
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