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Originally Posted by Anya1982
But yet it was proved wrong. USA didn't realise how advanced air warfare was at the time.
| Yeah Billy Mitchell was way off base when he proved Aircraft could sink battleships. |
Actually while it was a good PR stunt it proved nothing.
The battleship sunk was stationary, defenceless, and had no damage control crews on board.
In truth anything could have sunk a battleship under those conditions.
The one thing it didn't prove was that a battleship could be sunk by aircraft under actual battle conditions.
The US Naval Staff ( and others) dismissed the event as a simple publicity stunt.
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And that Marine Captain named Elliot (who wrote Plan Orange the US Pacific war plan) was full of it when he said Pearl Harbor would be attacked.
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Quite simply, the US military didn't consider the Japanese had the capacity to launch an attack like this in 1941, and they were almost right, the attack was at the limit of their logistical capabilities.