"I have always felt that Japan missed an opportunity to strike a decisive blow at Hawaii. IJN commanders should have looked at the nautical chart, grasped the fact that U.S. naval forces must operate across thousands of miles of ocean simply to reach the Western Pacific, and directed sub skippers to make the transpacific sea lanes no-go zones for American shipping. Rather, Japanese commanders should have thought and acted less tactically and more strategically. They didn't know just how close to the bone the American defenders were (like several hundred Marines on Midway and most of the ships at Pearl Harbor damaged or sunk). Certainly hostilities would have ground on long enough for the Manhattan Project to complete the first atomic bombs, which the U.S. then would have dropped not on Japan but on targets in Germany. Japan didn’t have the sealift capacity to invade Pearl Harbor. Minelayers. Greetings to both brother Panzer 94 and the community as a whole. This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Discussions on alternate history, including events up to 20 years before today. ( which To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. The logistic problems to any follow up parachute assault after the Pearl Harbor attack (if it succeeded) were numerous. Neglecting undersea warfare was an operational transgression of the first order.

The air attacks were separated into 2 times, ( at that time the JIA's aircraftcareers had no catapults for fighters, so that they were unable to fly all the fighters at one time therefore needed to separate the attack to 2 times.

This could have been achieved with relative ease by fostering good relations with the US and Britain. Problem 7: Speed of Reinforcement. After all,why weren't more planes and possibly ships,detached from the other Hawaiian Islands when it was discovered that the Japs were attacking?I don't understand your question. Absent a strong emperor, the army and navy were free to indulge their interservice one-upsmanship, jostling for influence and prestige. In addition to P40’s, Wildcats and P39’s all P38’s could have been diverted to Hawaii if Midway was lost as well. The tense situation resulted in the pilot shooting a Hawaiian gentleman--an extremely large Hawaiian gentleman--who, thus angered, proceeded to beat the snot out of the "invader. The initial Japanese assault failed (catastrophically so in the Battle of the Points). Hence, the premise of the question is not very accurate. Despite allied fears the Japanese had about reached the end of their logistical rope with areas they had already taken. @ALEXZANDERNORONHA-HYDE-STUD, as for the garrison, Wikipedia lists 218 soldiers killed. "casus belli" refers to the justification for a war, not the motivation.Instead of Wake Island, a better illustration might be the preliminary defense of Bataan. Pearl Harbor was the farthest away of their targets, and therefore the lowest priority for occupation. The Pearl Harbor attack was dangerous for Japan. And granted, enacting some of these measures would have demanded preternaturally farseeing leadership. The author is John J. Stephan and the publisher is the University of Hawaii Press in Honolulu, Hawaii. With these caveats out of the way, onward!Conserving enemies is a must even for the strongest combatants. Foresight was a virtue of which Japan's vacillating emperor and squabbling military rulers were woefully short. Tokyo stared that plight in the face following Pearl Harbor. History Stack Exchange works best with JavaScript enabled

If the original hypothetical Japanese invasion would have failed then it would be the American defenders who would be able to bring in reinforcements and the Japanese invaders who would be running out of supplies. (Riffing off a point made by The specific scenario of using paratroopers is a nonstarter. Copyright © 2006-2020 Historum. The publishing year is 1984.

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