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Originally Posted by varmint
the first big essex class carrier did not reach the pacific til may of 43. and the bad guys had there own new ships under construction.
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The japanese produced a mere handful of new carriers during the war. The US, on the other hand, produced very close to 200 new carriers during the war.
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Originally Posted by varmint
the japanese could have easily taken some of the hawaiian islands. and made a run at oahu.
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Easily? How can you say that when historically they failed utterly at even taking Midway? Do you know how many divisions of troops the US could have flooded the Hawaiin Islands with? Not just infantry, but armor as well. And hundreds, if not thousands of fighters.
Post war analysis of the Japanese threat to Hawaii showed that it was never a realistic threat at all.
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Originally Posted by varmint
the japanese strategy was to take as much territory as possible, and then negotiate a peace. with the german threat much more real in FDR's mind, and his advisors talking about a pacific war stretching into 1947, it might have made sense.
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The US was never going to accept anything short of unconditional(or very close to it) victory.
Even with the casualty projections of Olympic and Coronet, and all the suffering we'd seen all accross the Pacific, there was no serious thought given to cancelling Operation Downfall, the military invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.