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12-07-2011, 10:13 AM
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OT: Happy Pearl Harbor Day
70 years ago today the Empire of Japanese made it's greatest strategic mistake of WWII and lost their bid for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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12-07-2011, 06:50 PM
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12-07-2011, 10:26 PM
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It would have been interesting had the Japanese ignored US possessions for as long as possible but still invaded British possessions, leaving the US neutral for as long as possible.
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12-07-2011, 10:36 PM
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Wasn't their biggest mistake of the day not sending the last wave of aircraft to finish the job properly? Well, second to being a touch late with the declaration of war, but that was really a PR issue rather than military.
Ok, the whole thing turned out to be a tremendous blunder, but it would seem in the circumstances of the time they had little real choice if they wanted to continue expanding and have a hope of holding onto their new territories.
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12-07-2011, 11:02 PM
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The US entry into the war in the Pacific was of tremendous benefit to Australia. It's in no small part due to that, that Australia has backed up the US in every major conflict in the Asia-Pacific since then. We still appreciate it. So for us, no US serviceman or woman died in vain in the Pearl Harbor attacks. We honor their sacrifice.
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