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Originally Posted by 1967 R50/2
I find this a bit speculative. Nor do I think the conclusion was foregone., I also take issue with those who say it was American industry that won the war.
Although clearly a part of it, the much larger factor was American SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY. We had the planes (B-29, P-51Norden Bomb Site), subs (GATO campaigns in the Pacific), Computers, (code cracking and targetting), radar and most importantly the A-bomb.
Unfortunately we had few of these items in 1941-1942. If the Japanese had won at Midway, there would have been little stopping them from running rampant over the Pacific, besieging Hawaii and maybe bombing the Panama Canal zone (to prevent transfer of fleets). In short, it would have been very hard for the US to maintain any kind of surface naval presence in the Pacific with no carriers
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The premise i laid out is that arrived at in the book Shattered Sword, probably the pre-eminent non fiction work on the Battle of Midway.
I highly reccomend it.
Midway was not a decisive engagement because, in reality, the outcome of the war was already decided.