Why no tonnage war by Jap subs?
Posted by:
Jack
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Date: August 08, 2001 09:45PM
<HTML>Folks,
The Gremans waged a very effective war against merchant shipping from America to Great Brittian. Duh...
Why did the Japanese never do likewise in the Pacific?
Seems like the obvious thing for them to have done, to me. The US had to move much-o tonnage into the Pacific theatre to build up & take the offensive. Why not nip it in the bud, and delay US offensive efforts??? We would have been essentially defensiveless on the west coast, just like the east coast in early \'42...
The best I can figure it, it was \'unmanly\' or non- warrior like to their ego and in their culture.
Any other ideas? Any references? I\'d like to read about their thinking, or lack thereof, for this subject...There is something here that I just don\'t see. It\'s too obvious not to have been done!!!
Thanks,
Jack</HTML>
The Gremans waged a very effective war against merchant shipping from America to Great Brittian. Duh...
Why did the Japanese never do likewise in the Pacific?
Seems like the obvious thing for them to have done, to me. The US had to move much-o tonnage into the Pacific theatre to build up & take the offensive. Why not nip it in the bud, and delay US offensive efforts??? We would have been essentially defensiveless on the west coast, just like the east coast in early \'42...
The best I can figure it, it was \'unmanly\' or non- warrior like to their ego and in their culture.
Any other ideas? Any references? I\'d like to read about their thinking, or lack thereof, for this subject...There is something here that I just don\'t see. It\'s too obvious not to have been done!!!
Thanks,
Jack</HTML>
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Why no tonnage war by Jap subs?
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Jack | 08/08/2001 09:45PM |
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RE: Why no tonnage war by Jap subs?
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Brian Corijn | 08/08/2001 10:36PM |
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RE: Why no tonnage war by Jap subs?
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Michael Lowrey | 08/08/2001 11:15PM |
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RE: Why no tonnage war by Jap subs?
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kurt | 08/09/2001 03:50PM |