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Let us not forget the considerable military advantage we found ourselves in because of the inventions of RADAR and SONAR developed during the early days of the war. |
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And the two theatre code-cracking breaks
-- The code breakers that broke the Japanese purple Code with the test fake message about the faulty fresh water condensers- that ID'd Midway-- and the intact capture of a U-Boat in the North Sea and the Enigma code book the british found intact in the Captain's safe- the British were reading the Nazis' messages and the Germans were unaware of that- they thought the U-Boat went down with the crew-- Lucky breaks--
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Japan did not invade the US---in fact, there were strong military reservations about victory itself because of America's industrial capacity---because it didn't have the resources to do so.
As for the Zero fighter, no American fighter could come near it in any conditions until introduction of the Grumann F6F Hellcat in 1943---not even the contemporary Spitfire, Hurricane, Messerschmidt 109. One-on-one, fixed undercarriage and only 1,000hp notwithstanding, to tangle with a Zero was suicide, according to US military analysts and historians. As for the Hunter Defence Force notion, it's not a bad one: warfare of today proves the limits of our surpassing military power in North Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. Canada couldn't control the streets of Kandahar after 10 years in Afghanistan; read Sebastian Junger's best-selling "War" to discover 10 years of US Army's ineffectiveness in the Korengal Valley. That's why our countries are leaving. Citizens everywhere dislike being occupied by foreign countries, and have simple and cost-effective ways of defeating them. Nineteen Muslims scared the world half to death and changed it forever on 9/11. It was intended solely as a provocation and we got the message. America didn't invade beaten Japan because the casualties would have been prohibitive. Why would America be different? Gun control within this context is least of our problems. The greatest danger to US sovereignty is its currently dysfunctional political system which is weakening its armed forces and indirectly paying the full shot of China's growing military capacity. Canada's current military debate is a complete make-over to give more autonomy to front-line troops. Our command and support "tail" has grown four times as fast as deployment of our fighting men and women. |
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Hi King, Japan did invade and occupy an island in the Aleutian Chain of Alaska, which was and is a part of the US. Alaska was not a state at the time but still part of the US.
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Yes, Tom, and that Aleutians excursion confirmed to Japanese military that they couldn't win the war when a piece of their engineering from a wrecked Zero fighter in the Aleutians turn up as an American fighter modification THREE months later. Japan had antiquated, second-rate industrial capacity entering the war. Invading another continent from a resources-weak island would be an impossible logistical task, and Canada---mobilized, already two years at war---was between Alaska and the US and still is. Please consider also that Japan was aware that the British signed a contract for 320 Mustang P51 aircraft with North American Aircraft on 29 May 1940 (18 months before Pearl Harbour) and five months to the day the first one was off the assembly line. RAF Mustangs entered combat in May 1942. Japan knew it couldn't match that design, engineering and production capacity. Its best fighter entering and at the end of the war was the Zero.
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Just a few thoughts... Pretty sure we weren't at war with Germany when the attack by the Japanese on Dec. 7 1941 occured. I believe it was Germany who declared war on the USA first, shortly after Pearl Harbor, in support of the Japanese Empire . My historical memory comes and goes so someone please check this out.
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Not to be picky, but the Japanese Zero fighter plane did have retractable landing gear. Several of their other types did not. Bill
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