Darn we are stilling losing this war I hope it turns around soon.
Yes we are still losing the war...on the face of it. But the Axis margin is much thinner than most people, including Axis leaders, realize.
In preparation for this coming June’s event in the Central Pacific, I am re-reading Paschall & Tully’s “Shattered Sword, The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway.” At this time the Japanese are making their next set of plans, and Yamamoto is obsessed with bringing American fleet carriers out to the “decisive battle.” Paschall & Tully have pointed out that at this time, the Japanese margin of superiority in the war is really just two ships: Shokaku & Zuikaku, the two fleet carriers of Carrier Division 5. The Japanese won’t get another fleet carrier until Taiho is completed in 1944, but they know America is building at least 11 Essex class carriers right now. The fleet striking force of Kido Butai’s six carriers is Japan’s one and only strategic weapons system, and it’s numerical superiority will end in no more than two years. If that force is lost earlier, the Japanese will have lost their naval superiority which they can never again regain.
You’d think they would appreciate stuff like this....