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Which Japanese attack method was more secretive on Pearl Harbor?
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Both the Air and undersea attack were secretive. Both of the attacks were discovered before the attack began , but only the undersea attack was foiled. The air attack was blown off as a group of B-17s due in from the United States mainland when the air attack formation was picked up on radar.
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What term describes the method of attack used by the Nazis?
Blitzkrieg
What was Japan's stratergy in the Pearl Harbor?
They used a shock and awe method of surprising the US Naval Fleet who was unprepared for any attack. They were to totally disable the USN fleet and the airplanes. They did that but did not get the aircraft carriers not realizing they were away from Pearl Harbor conducting maneuvers.
Did admiral Yamamoto make a wise decision in bombing Pear Harbor?
first answer:He didn't chose to bomb Pearl Harbor, he was ordered to. He was a man who followed the orders so he devised the plan to bomb Pearl Harbor. He was completely against it the decision to attack the United States.Correct answer:Admiral Yamamoto was actually the person that had the idea to attack Pearl Harbor and actively pushed for it in late 1940 and during 1941.The Japanese military leaders running Japan decided in 1940 that they would attack the British & Dutch in Asia, even at the risk of war with the United States. Although, Admiral Yamamoto did not propose the war against the British & Dutch,he wasnot opposed to it.At this point, Admiral Yamamoto began thinking about the existing Japanese Naval Strategy & the contingency war plans for facing the US. He strongly disagreed with the currentplan to defeat the US Navy in a defensive campaign. He offered an alternative that required taking bold offensive actions to start the war. Included was a secret large surprise attack on the US military in Hawaii (including those at Pearl Harbor). He was very involved in the detailed planning of the attack, and wanted it to occur before Japanese Declaration of War.Although Admiral Yamamoto expressed his concerns about the results of the attack after the war began, there is absolutely no doubt that he was fully 100% committed to proposing, planning, organizing, ordering and overseeing the attack.Now, as to how wise a decision it was:In my opinion: No, it was not a wise decision.I recommend youread the bookA World At Arms by Gerhard L. Weinberg.The original Japanese intent was to hold the American military off for 6 months to a year. The Japanese navy leadership correctly understood that the United States was too strong to defeat in a long war. Instead the Japanese made the assumption that the US would not be willing to fight in Asia & the Pacific and would negotiate a peace that would allow the Japanese to keep its conquests.Among the numerous mistakes of Japan was the idea (by the Japanese Army) that Japan had to attack the United States. Next was the idea, by Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, to initiate a surprise attack on the US military at Pearl Harbor and other places in Hawaii.This surprise Sunday attack at Pearl Harbor had many unfortunate results for Japan, the most important are:1) The attack was well documented by photographic means, proving to the American publicthat this was an intentionally planned surpriseattack that did happen on US territory on a Sunday while the US was at-peace by the Japanese (versus a chance meeting at sea that got out of control).2) It so angered the American public and the US leadership that the Japanese would have absolutely no chance for a peaceful settlement.Instead the American public would strongly support the utter & complete defeat of Japan, even if it meant bringing the horrors of war to the Japanese Home Islands and the Japanese people.3) Because the attack was carried out in the shallow harbor of Pearl Harbor, it would allow several battleships that were sunk in the attack to be laterrefloated, raised, rebuilt, and put back into service during the war. It also allowed for the survival of most of the valuable US navy crews of the ships in the harbor.4) Also because the attack on the US Navy occurred at the harbor, US anti-aircraft firepower (Navy & Army) was much more concentrated than it would have been at sea. Although US anti-aircraft defenses were un-manned at the start, they were able to shoot down nine Japanese aircraft in the first wave, and then 20 Japanese aircraft in the second wave of the attack. The US Navy also sank several Japanese midget-submarines in-and-around the harbor. These are actually fairly heavy losses for Japan’s best navy aircrews in a surprise attack. The Japanese Navy up until this time only produced 100 pilots per year, so it would take them almost four months to replace these losses (with much less experienced pilots).5) The temporary loss of battleships in the Pacific forced the US Navy leadership to adopt & successfully fight the early months of the war with only its aircraft carrier & cruiser task forces. This would create a new way for the US Navy to fight & win in the Pacific. This concept was improved as the war went on, and as many more US Aircraft Carriers were built & put into service, the US Navy would gain naval supremacy in aircraft carrier combat operations.6) The US Navy was given a first-hand (& very personal) lesson on the absolute importance of having good anti-aircraft defenses on-board all its ships. Very quickly US ships replaced their .50 cal machine-guns with the more powerful & potent 20mm & 40mm anti-aircraft cannons in very large numbers. Also these weapons would be manned by additional & dedicated crews that were trained especially for this duty. The earlier practice of manning these guns with anybody available (cooks, clerks, etc.) during an air-raid was discarded in favor of highly trained specialists. By the end of the war, US warships had AA guns installed on just about every available free space on the deck, superstructure & even on top of major gun turrets. Ship crews grew in numbers by adding the AA crews. Additionally the US Navy adopted & practiced very effective AA tactics for ships using “mutual-support” between ships. US ships, during enemy air-attacks, were close enough to one-another to be able to provide AA fire to protect other nearby ships. This required that these ships maneuver together in-formation to avoid collisions, hence the importance of lot of practice & training. Side-note: The Japanese never learned this particular method of AA defense.7) The Japanese leadership & public were given the false impression that their victory was at-hand, and that they were invincible. This “victory disease”, as the Japanese would later call it, led them to make several strategic & tactical mistakes in combat with the Americans & Australians.
What did the Japanese think of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Chief among the detractors of the attack on the U.S. was the man in overall charge of the operation, Admiral Yamamoto. He knew that the attack would only buy him some time to do what he wanted in the Pacific but that eventually the U.S. would hit them like the proverbial ton of bricks (that's my interpretation :) However, he was duty and honor bound to support his government and ultimately his emperor in their endeavours. Yamamoto himself said " I feel as if we have awakened a sleeping giant." Some people speculate that if the Japanese had sent in the fourth wave of attacks, designed to destroy the petroleum storage tanks at Ford Island, that the Japanese would have gained even more time in their efforts to conquer the Pacific Rim. .
A rapid new attack method used by Nazi Germany in World War 2?
Blitzkreig
How did the Japanesse attack America at pearl harbor?
They used the old sneak attack method.
What Japanese official signed the decree instituting the limited war against the US?
Japanese Emperor Hirohito was only forty years old at the time of Pearl Harbor, and he had already been emperor for 15 years. He therefore was not a novice concerning Japanese options and had approved of the 1931 attack on China. Nevertheless, he had long been an advocate of diplomacy to end US-Japanese problems. Ultimately, he was convinced that an attack on the US was the proper method to solve these problems. He believed an attack on Pearl Harbor would force the US to withdraw its embargo and solve possible interference in East Asia.On December 1, 1941 it was he who had the ultimate authority to declare war and he signed a decree to begin the Pacific war vs the US.
Why did japan choose the method of the pearl harbor attack?
The plan was to destroy the American fleet in port, but the primary goal in the fleet were the aircraft carriers. The aircraft carriers were not in port then.
What is a Japanese massage?
A method of massaging that was created by the Japanese.
What country did the Japanese get their method of writing?
China
What affected the attack on pear Harbor?
The Japanese invented a air dropped torpedo with wooden fins that permitted it to work in shallow water. Most torpedoes dropped from planes go several feet under water before they level off. The new torpedoes with wooden fins were able to operate in the shallow water of Pearl Harbor and sink (or damage) many ships. Early bombs dropped from planes were not as accurate at hitting a ship as torpedoes, so torpedoes were the preferred method of attacking ships early in WWII.
How to write words in Japanese?
You will need to download a Japanese Input Method Editor in order to type in Japanese.
What is a good method of remembering Japanese?
i don't know about remebering Japanese, but the way i learnt (remembered) Japanese was to live with my Japanese girlfriend (commonly known as Pillow dictionary)
What is a popular new Japanese electronic singing method?
Vocaloid?
What term describes the method of attack used by the Nazis?
Blitzkrieg
What are methods to control Japanese Beetles?
Milky spore, as a type of insecticide, is a method that is used to control Japanese beetles.
Did Britain give japan misinformation to get them to bomb Pearl Harbor?
No. The Japanese Navy had meditated an attack on Pearl Harbor for decades, in the event of war with the US. The idea was actually the subject of a novel published before the first World War, which did not go unnoticed in Japan. For several years in the early 30s the question of how best to attack Pearl Harbor was included on the final examination of classes at the Imperial Naval General Staff College. Once further sales of oil to Japan were embargoed in the summer of 1941, the Japanese had only an 18 month supply on hand. The leaders of the military thus saw the situation as a stark choice between knuckling under to US demands that they cease their aggressive conquests in Asia, withdraw from China, and give up forever the dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", or, come up with an alternative supply of oil, which meant invading the Dutch East Indies for the ample supply there. Not realizing than unlike themselves, a US president (in those days) could not take the US to war whenever he might wish to do so, the Japanese felt it necessary to invade the Philippines (then a US possession) to secure the flank of their attack farther south. The Japanese never understood that the people of the US were most unlikely to support going to war over any number of some other country's invaded colonies, and thus choose the one method of ensuring that the people of the US would be implacably determined to see them vanquished, by making a direct attack on the US. It was Admiral Yamamoto who was able to use his prestige to add the attack on Pearl Harbor to the overall plan, over considerable reluctance among his colleagues, in order to inflict sufficient damage to the US Pacific Fleet that the US would be unable to interfere with the planned Japanese conquests for at least six months, by which time they would have (and did) secure all their objectives. The Japanese expected or hoped that after this the soft, decadent US would meekly acquiesce in this new status quo, and make peace.
