Recollections of former Imperial Japanese military personnel paint a picture of peer pressure and optimism fueled by Germany s victories across Europe as putting Japan on an unstoppable path toward the Pacific War.
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WWII sinking of battleship Yamato a symbol of Japan s mad war
April 25, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
The forward auxiliary battery on the sunken Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato is seen in this photo provided by the Yamato Museum. TOKYO When the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato weighed anchor in Tokuyama Bay off Yamaguchi Prefecture on the afternoon of April 6, 1945, bound for the waters around Okinawa, its commanders did not expect to return. The largest and most fearsome vessel of its kind on Earth, the Yamato and its crew were to fight and perish in a final titanic struggle against approaching Allied forces.
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Tokyo could not afford to lose its carriers the way America could.
Key point: America had better industrial capacity to build replacements and win the war. That was why lopsided trades of warships at the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway were so damaging for Tokyo s cause.
Responding to a November 27, 1941, war warning message from Admiral Harold R. “Betty” Stark, chief of naval operations, America’s prized handful of aircraft carriers were fortuitously absent from Pearl Harbor when Japanese planes savaged the Pacific Fleet on Sunday, December 7.
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Saratoga (CV-3) was refitting in San Diego, the USS
Enterprise (CV-6) was returning after ferrying fighters to the Marine Corps defense force on Wake Island, the USS