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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer
One oft-overlooked fact was that the Japanese also had 3000 aircraft remaining - most outdated, or in poor condition - to sortie against the invasion fleet. This amounted to, by US estimates, two to three destroyed carriers of the line (destroyed as in, totally sunk) plus a lot of other smaller support ships. That's assuming CAP and perimeter defense ships worked entirely as planned.
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Okinawa cost the USN dearly in ships sunk and damaged. But it could have been much worse. The Kapanese military followed their normal doctrine and went for the capital warships. With the invasion of Japan, their targeting lists were changed...the kamikaze's would instead attack troop transports as they neared the coast
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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08-10-2012, 02:08 PM
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