They should have at least bombed the submarine base and the fuel depot.
They should have at least bombed the submarine base and the fuel depot.
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I think they really needed that fuel and they figured we would be so devastated we would just pack our bags and take the next steamer back to the mainland.
Like I am wont to remind all the ‘Anti Hiroshima’ types that if there weren’t a Pearl Harbor, chances are Hiroshima would have never happened.
The fuel farms and the PHNS should have been priority targets after the battle fleet was dispatched. Without the fuel farm, oil for our ships would have to have come from the West Coast to support our naval forces in the Hawaiian waters. The ship yard, it salvaged the damaged warships and served throughout the war repairing damaged war ships. That yard, got the Yorktown back in fighting condition in less than 48 hours. What would have been the outcome of Midway if Yorktown could not have been repaired in Hawaii.