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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
There were a couple of timing and tactical things during the Pacific war that definitely affected the short term outcome. (The long term outcome once Germany was defeated is pretty clear.) IIRC there was a Super Carrier that was sunk or bombed out at a very inopportune time, or it was just about to be finished and the Americans had already pushed too far for it to matter. Also several strategic battles, as well as the Japanese not being able to catch the American carriers in Pearl Harbor really hurt things.
That and the Japanese not being able to sink the Enterprise! (Picard is one hell of a captain.    )
edit: Hilarious that our mods have made it so that Picard is automatically upper-cased. Stand up and take a bow, oh nerdy overlords of CP. |
I think that your talking about Midway where the American's caught the Japanese in a bad position and managed to destroy the majority of their fleet carriers and their best pilots.
Basically by the time Midway came around the Japanese believed that they were un beatable and because of that their scouting was incredibly poorly thought out and the American's with far fewer carriers managed to slip into a position to engage the Japanese Navy.
Its also important to note that without the sacrifice of American Torpedo Squadron 8 (I think) the Japanese Carriers probably would have survived and the war could have ended differently.
Because of Midway the Japanese started the slow roll back leading to the great Marianas turkey shoot which pretty well finished Japanese Naval aviation.