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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: haqihana who wrote (135641)4/5/2001 6:13:08 PM
From: Andy Thomas  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
--It is true that the battleships would not have helped at Midway, or the Coral Sea but shelling the island beaches would have been right up their alley.
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but that, for the most part came later. if those carriers had been at pearl. the war would have lasted another year or two.

againt the u.s., japan was doomed from the start however.

the japanese should have attacked the back side of the soviets during the summer of 1941. even that though is questionable speculation. apparently in '37 or so the russians had kicked their butts a couple of times in manchuria, so in 1941 their effect on the soviets might have been negligible. but with stalin stripping the east of troops (particularly as '41 wore on), perhaps the japanese had an opening which they never bothered to exploit.

by the way, stalin stripped the eastern frontier of troops on the word of his man sorge in tokyo ('the japanese won't be attacking siberia')

andy
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