The harbor was too tight too move big ships around much. Regardless, Kimmel had received a war warning and should have put ships at sea and...
A great story of an indomitable spirit and strong constitution. It sounds like he was able to build a happy life over time. I knew some of his...
I'd make Guam the 51st state and use the Chinese idea of territorial waters to claim the pacific from there to the west coast. Then convince...
To close the loop on Morrison, he does state the Japanese aircraft had the fuel to persue the 7th fleet 150 miles south, if necessary. This seems...
My guess is that once the Japanese had made the decision to go to war with us, only moving the fleet back to the west coast would have made the...
Except that time travel never works. I always end up in a nearby alternate universe.
According to Morrison, the Japanese plans allowed for a pursuit of the 7rh Fleet to the south, if search aircraft reported they were not in Pearl...
Wake Island was the place RA Kimmel hoped to get At naval forces With naval forces. He tried to use the Relief Force to redeem his command. It...
Welcome Cryil. I downloaded your game it looks really great. Are you working on any other battles?
Thanks, All. This is really, clear useful information and puts to rest something I've encountered sort of obliquely over the past 30 odd years....
Some people think the biggest mistake in the attacK.plan was not invading Oahu to sever the US supply line more thotughly. If they had, where...
Everyone seems to agree FDR and our military leaders believed the sooner America joined the British in fighting the Nazis the better the chances...
The second scenario: Somehow the fleet was at sea when attacked might go like this: Admiral Kimmel orders the Fleet out for training and they...
It seems that the Army - who was responsible for AA defense of both Navy and Army Bases - complained of ready ammunition going bad in the Hawaiian...
That was exactly their mental error. Even a war warning didn't break them out of their peacetime mentality to change their way of doing business....
The problem for the 2 leaders was that, after years of peacetime planning, they could only imagine a war that would start slowly (submarines,...
