soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:11:42 UTC, Bill Shatzer
wrote:

> Joe Osman wrote:
>
>
> > The scale of possibilities would depend on how many US carriers they
> > sank and how many of their own survived. Just taking Johnston would
> > give them an air base somewhat half way between Midway and Hawaii.
> > See John J. Stephan, "Hawaii under the Rising Sun: Japan's Plans for
> > Conquest after Pearl Harbor", University of Hawaii Press, 1984.and
> > http://www.users.bigpond.com/pacificwar/Midway/ScopeofMidwayOp.html
>
> Johnston atoll is southwest of Oahu and is all to hell and gone from
> Midway which is northwest of Oahu.
>
> It is further from Johnston to Midway than it is from Oahu to Midway. By
> no stretch of the imagination is it "halfway between Midway and Hawaii".
>
> "Hawaii Under the Rising Sun" is, incidently, not a very good reference.
> It seems to treat every speculation by junior Japanese naval officers
> and the popular Japanese press as actual "plans".
>
> Cheers,
>
Read Harry Turtledove's books about the invasion and occupation of
Hawaii. His alternate history is pretty good on those books.

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