General Discussion

as well as much of the rest of World War II,
and have gamed out scenarios of that attack, and the whole war...


We Americans had good reason to discount the probability of any attack on Hawaii,
because of the distance from Japan, and the fuel it would take
for any Japanese attack fleet to get there, and be able to make it back home----
(I presume that was their assumption, although I've never read any documentation of such--
simply, they thought Hawaii was safe from any possible Japanese attack, that is, the majority
of the military.... there were a few alarmed dissenters, but they couldn't get that message through)


While OTOH, the Japanese fleet, to be able to make this attack on Hawaii and return
from this attack which they had been planning all through the year of 1941,
were storing extra fuel on all of their ships in 5-gallon cans, in any space that was available
(as well as on fuel tankers accompanying the attack fleet).

On their return home, some of the Japanese aircraft carriers broke away
and participated in the Japanese siege of Wake Island...
(When the Americans on Wake realized that they were finally being attacked by carrier planes,
they thought their time was just about gone--- they were forced to surrender just before Christmas 1941.)


The Ukranian drone attack here was absolutely brilliant!
No idea how they managed to truck all those drones so close to their targets,
but obviously Russian security was even more faulty than that of the Americans in December 1941!