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To: moonshot925

Of the battleships, 8 were in the Atlantic and the Colorado was at Bremerton, WA being overhauled. We all know what happened to the others.

Of the aircraft carriers, 4 were in the Atlantic and the three Pacific carriers - Lexington and Enterprise were at sea and Saratoga was in CA - were saved. None of the carriers under construction were available before December 1942. We were in bad shape after Pearl Harbor; only America’s mighty manufacturing base saved us.


12 posted on 06/10/2012 2:16:44 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: NTHockey

It didn’t make much sense for the US to have the majority of its major ships on the Atlantic. Italy’s Regia Marina was confined to the Mediterranean and the Nazi surface fleet was virtually insignificant (apart from a few pocket battleships which were a nuisance...


22 posted on 06/10/2012 3:55:43 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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Plus the fact that neither Germany nor Japan bombed any major infrastructure here also helped us win the war.


34 posted on 06/10/2012 6:36:49 AM PDT by KevinDavis (I would never vote for a third party!!!)
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