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Dec.7th 1941: Pearlmageddon 2017-02-21 06:18:50 Post No. 2397949
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“December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor: it's not the Japanese air force killing people on the beach but the shards of a giant meteor, headed for Earth. FDR gets the bad news from an aide, calls an emergency meeting, and sends for Matt and his crew of drillers. But how will they get to the hurtling rock? And, if the meteor does break into smaller pieces, where will they land, and will that create any political problems for the President? A subplot has Gwen torn between her two loves, Matt and Ben. Is a sequel in the works?”
But what if a fragment of a meteor had hit Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th, an hour before the Japanese were about to attack (7:48am in the original timeline)?
The meteor isn’t big enough to cause a global catastrophe but is more then enough to destroy every ship in the harbor as well as all the harbor facilities and everything else for several miles around.
Essentially, Pearl Harbor gets “nuked” Tunguska style.
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The Japanese fleet witness the incoming meteor and the blast on the horizon but the Kidō Butai is unscathed and proceeds to carry out the strike as planned but when the carrier strike planes reach Pearl Harbor, all they find is a smoking ruin - what do they do?
The entire Hawaiian Islands are wide open to attack but the Japanese fleet doesn’t have the men to land any kind of effective invasion force (how long until Tokyo can get Imperial Army forces to the islands to occupy them?) but they can tear up everything in sight all around the Hawaiian Islands.
The other Japanese attacks (such as against the Philippines) are carried out as in the OTL and the Japanese embassy in D.C. delivers the declaration of war against the U.S. but I’d think the opportunity to seize the Hawaiian Islands would to be too good of a opportunity (indeed, a divine opportunity) to pass up.
And what does the U.S. do? As per the OTL, the U.S. Navy carriers are out to sea and survive the meteor strike but everything in Pearl Harbor is gone and all that’s left in the Hawaiian Islands are small scattered units. Word coming back to the States is that everything was destroyed in one massive explosion - would the U.S. think it’s a Japanese super weapon (would the Japanese claim that?) or would scientists figure out it was a meteor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
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Really? Nobody find this in the least bit interesting?
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