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Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix, Linton Wells II

Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War Eric Lacroix, Linton Wells II ebook
Publisher: Chatham Publishing
Page: 903
ISBN: 1861760582,
Format: pdf

The carriers were supported by battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Japan's Prime Minister Tojo threatens Britain and attack on America's Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. At Pearl Harbor, the Japanese bombed many American weapons and the Americans were defenseless. The same battle at Midway was very similar, but this time the Japan had disastrous results and lost 3 battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 13 cruisers and nearly 500 -lanes. Of these eight damaged, two were raised, and with four repaired, six battleships returned to service later in the war. In what ways were the American victory at Midway and the Japanese triumph at Pearl Harbor alike? USS Halsey's namesake is Fleet Adm. Despite the clear threat of war contained in Tojo's warning, and despite having no knowledge of the whereabouts of Japan's six largest fleet aircraft carriers, no steps were taken at Hawaii to bring the United States Pacific Fleet or the United States Army Air Corps to a state of war alert. P116 Long befrore 1914, Amreica's minifest destiniy had carried it far beyond its own shores;the USA had no intention of standing aside while the Europeas were occupying the world.In 1867 it With the London Naval Treaty of 1930, it extended to its heavy cruisers the three-to-five ratio it hadd accepted with the USA,mit pledged to maintan the staus quo in the Pacific.. Tenryu, a 3230-ton light cruiser built at Yokosuka, Japan, was commissioned in November 1919. From A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Presen. William “Bull” Halsey Jr., commander of the U.S. 3 Fleet in the Pacific War against Imperial Japan.