Pearl Harbor, as seen from japanese planes on 12/7/1941

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Mmmmm, look at all those tasty, tasty battleships

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>>32547981
colorized it for you

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the japanese did nothing wrong

>>32548396
>starting a war which they had no chance of winning

I would say they made a couple of mistakes.

>>32548381

Did.... did we learn nothing?

>>32548491
We did. Intelligence, and radar warnings, will not be ignored now like they were at Pearl Harbor.
Those are the single biggest lessons.

>>32548396
>commit a surprise attack on the US
>Get YANK'd
>Become American vassal

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"I WARNED YOU ABOUT AMERICAN PRODUCTION RATES BRO!!!!! I TOLD YOU DOG!"

>mfw the US followed essentially the same war plan it had, Plan Orange, since 1900 or so and it worked perfectly (unofficially, of course, as no official war plan beyond Rainbow 5 was ever adopted)
>we outproduced the 1929 estimates but followed the exact stratagem listed out of massive overproduction and drowning the japs in carriers/destroyers/escorts/trade war


>tfw the Philippines was always predicted to be a loss for the US and as a tasty holding action that the Japanese couldn't ignore

>>32548634
Even if the Philippines was going to be lost; how MacArthur did not gets sacked, when Gen. Short and Adm. Kimmel were, is god damned baffling.
MacArthur knew he was at war and did absolutely nothing to prepare for the Japanese attack.

>>32548658
Because MacArthur had powerful friends in the GOP.

>>32548658
MacArthur was a retard as proven by his handling of the Chinese threat during Korea.

>we'll be home by Christmas, they'll never invade
>millions of Chinese sitting on the borders of North Korea/China, multiple reports from foreign diplomats/air recon/divisional S2s of evidence of a Chinese intervention
>lol no just set up in a loose line along the river with nearly a kilometer between (platoons? brigades? I don't remember the term)
>NI HAO KILL UN-EY