![]() ![]() Their focus became the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Once the Japanese had decided on war with America. ![]() One of the not yet fully inderstood questions of World War II is why the Japanese did nor strike north at the Siviets after the Germans had destroyed much of the Red Army. But situated between the Home Island and those resources were the American Phillipine Islands and the implied threat threat of the Pacific Fleet which President Roosevelt had moved forward to Pearl Harbor. German successes in Europe opened up the prospects of seizing the resource rich British, Dutch, and French colonies in Southeast Asia. Japan would have to end the war in China or find alternative supplies of natural resources. To make matters worse, their primary source of resources to conduct the war in China as the United States. The war in China put substantial demands on the Japanese economy. They had achieved sucess after success in China, but still the war dragged on. Navy managed to stop the Japanese only 6 months after Peal Harbor before American industry could provide the stream of plsanes and ships that would eventually destroy the Imperial Navy. The real question is not how the Japanese succeeded at Pearl Harbor, but how the U.S. (the British were still uding biplanes), And the Japanese pilots were better trained and more exoperienced. Not only did the Japanese have more carriers and carrier aircraft, their planes were superior to American and British carrier aircraft. The simple truth, however, is that in 1941 the Japanese had the most powerful naval fiorce in the world. Unsaid is the racist assumption that the Japanese on their own could not hsve carried out such a devestating attack. World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy (1941)Ĭonspiracy theorists make the absurd charge that President Rooiselvelt and Secretary of War Marshall were responsible for the debacle at Pearl Harbor. ![]()
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