Why did Japan hold back?It’s tough to be me. It's quite another to dislocate it from an island - as the rest of the Pacific Campaign would later demonstrate. ‘The danger is imminent.
Had the Japanese fleet run into effective opposition, they could have seen their offensive power severely limited.Which is exactly what happened at Midway six months later, when they lost four carriers. Anybody can answer If we need two a day, we need 22 ships heading to Hawaii at any one time to sustain the force.
The logistic problems to any follow up parachute assault after the Pearl Harbor attack (if it succeeded) were numerous. (Actually, it’s not that big a stretch: the Kaiser’s Germany coveted a Tuesday, while trying to recover from jetlag, I paid an early morning visit to the This wasn’t my first visit to the historic sites. "Geographic space, logistics, other commitments—these considerations would have outweighed any concerns about an armed American populace. It's one thing to bomb such a force. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top The US could counter attack Hawaii easier than Japan could invade it. @jamesqf What the attack did was inflict major damage on the fleet. Discuss the workings and policies of this site
This view, however, does not take any of the background information and history of the conflict into account.Japan did not invade Hawaii at the same time it attacked Pearl Harbor because it was counter to its goals at the time. The Japanese didn’t finish off Pearl Harbor because of a lack of resources and insight. It starts its historical claim by stating:"After the Japanese decimated our fleet in Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941, they could have sent their troop ships and carriers directly to California to finish what they started. Remember that the entire attack took just two hours. As bad as Pearl Harbor was, it could’ve been—and should’ve been, from Tokyo’s standpoint—far worse. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass. That’s a lesson wise strategists will take from December 7.Japan announces plans to deploy PAC-3 missiles in response to North Korea’s planned “satellite” launch.The US has a careful balancing act to perform if it wants to modify its custodian role in the Asia-Pacific ‘commons.’Contact with the outside world has cost them dearly in the past.
The initial Japanese assault failed (catastrophically so in the Battle of the Points). Pearl Harbor was the farthest away of their targets, and therefore the lowest priority for occupation. The daily consumption of 28,000 tons is just over 190,000 barrels - in other words, the stockpile was only good for less than eight months. @ALEXZANDERNORONHA-HYDE-STUD, as for the garrison, Wikipedia lists 218 soldiers killed. It was total wishful thinking. During this period Japan could have bombed the base at Pearl Harbor into rubble and then bring their carriers back to return the planes and personnel to some other place of need. Antiaircraft guns. 「Sub Targets」: air bases, aircrafts ( which were thought to potentially cause to delay and diminish the impact of the attack to 「main targets」. ) The attack on Pearl Harbor didn't wipe out America's defenses, it wiped out the One answer to this question lies in President Roosevelt's "Yesterday the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya.The Japanese were engaged all over the Pacific, and spread very thin. The Pearl Harbor attack was dangerous for Japan. Several times in 1942, Japanese operations in Burma and elsewhere were built around limitations of supply, and offensives might have been halted were they not able to use captured Allied supplies and vehicles; for instance, during the battle for New Guinea, Japanese troops were ordered to capture supplies post-haste in order for future offensives to be possibleAn invasion of Hawaii would require a force on the same order of magnitude as the aforementioned ones, but at a considerably higher expense due to the distance involved.
His report, completed by January 11 of 1942, indicated that it would take at least sixty transport loads a month (essentially two ships a day) to sustain the force and islands To put this in a mathmatical perspective, if we were to plot a course on a straight line from Yokohama to Oahu, deviating only for land obstructions, we get a distance of nearly 4,000 miles. Although this idea gained some support, it was soon dismissed for several reasons:As outlined above occupation of Hawaii was never possible. Which brings me to the next point.The entire reason Japan entered the Pacific War was to take the resources of South East Asia, which had been denied to it by the Japan faced several shortages, but the most pressing one was oil.As the embargo took hold, the Japanese navy alone was consuming 400 tons of oil per hour and was becoming desperate as supplies dwindled by 28,000 tons per day.