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To: dybdahl who wrote (64196)	6/14/2010 1:58:56 AM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217789

My father's contemptuous opinion was shaped by his participation in the latter stages of the Pacific War, in which the USA forces and equipment were vastly superior to the Japanese. The Japanese had a great fighter in the Zero, but its plywood gas tanks were unarmored. They also had a superior torpedo, the Long Lance, but failed to use it effectively. The USA rapidly developed better planes with better armor, and used unrestricted submarine warfare to hamstring the Japanese supply lines. The real problem for Japan was lack of production capacity. They just couldn't keep up with the tempo of USA innovation and output under wartime conditions... Why Japan Really Lost The War combinedfleet.com In hindsight, it's terribly sad that Japan adopted the European-style great-power colonial occupation mentality.