![]() ![]() The closest thing was Midway, where momentum and most sea control fell to the US. Japan wasn't in a situation where a decisive victory at sea could force the UK or US out of the war (though they might have lost the public will to fight).Īnd Germany was never a threat to take surface control of the ocean, their navy was a raiding navy never meant to duke it out with the RN like at Jutland. The decisive battle strategy wasn't going to be a factor in WWII. Of course then they went and attacked Hawaii, and after that the US wasn't going to stop until Japan was finished. Japan was basically hoping the US wouldn't care enough about some islands most people had never heard of. Unfortunately the only way to actually knock the US out for good was to invade them, which obviously wasn't going to happen. The issue is the US wouldn't have let them do that, so they needed to knock the US out. Japan didn't want to invade the US, they just wanted to expand in the Pacific. It also showed that the Kongo's had no business in the modern battle line even with their up armoring as the South Dakota took a hell of a beating and kept on ticking sailing away under her own power, the citadel was never penetrated. 11Īdmiral Lee's radar clinic at Guadalcanal showed any Japanese strategist that their night battle advantage had not only been nullified but that the Americans has the advantage in a night battle. ![]() This quote was spread by the militarists, minus the last sentence, where it was interpreted in America as a boast that Japan would conquer the entire continental United States. I wonder if our politicians have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices." - Isoroku Yamamoto To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. ![]() "Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it would not be enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. ![]()
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