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Originally Posted by PullMyFinger
Thanks for your help YAC. I love the thoughtfulness with the way Nimitz approached the seemingly impossible task before him. And his fears that the Hawaiian Islands would be occupied by the Japanese I think were very common sense and to me Japan made a huge mistake not doing it. How that would have set back the US plans by years even possibly.
I'm up to about page 15, and great that it saves your spot when you come back!
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That would have been logistically difficult if not impossible for Japan. Nimitz actually stated that Japan's biggest mistake was not launching a third salvo to take out all the repair facilities, oil depots, and dry docks. He stated that would have delayed American operations in the Pacific by up to one or two years.
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