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Originally Posted by Roughneck
The focus on battleship row (as well as the Utah and the service ships and cruisers near her) at the expense of drydock facilities, oil storage and submarine yards meant Pearl Harbor could be maintained as the prime Pacific operating base for the entire war, including the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. Yeah they got their sucker punch in, but there wasn't much to gloat about in the end.
'A small victory that lost Japan the war' as one Japanese admiral put it.
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True but- weren’t the US ships out at sea and therefore missed? If they were docked, coulda been a much different war.