"Tiger" wrote in message
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Keith Willshaw wrote:

Ala 911 , Hawaii was not seen as the target. Thats why we deployed planes
to
Midway & Wake and was sending reinforcements to the Phillipines like the
PT boats loaded to go to MTB squadron 3. The Intel was all hot about
movements toward Malaya. Thus, the Brits put Force Z out to Sea
from Singapore. Stop trying to refight the battle.

There's a difference between refighting the battle and
analysing the errors made. Nothing could have prevented
the attack BUT the fleet anchorage could and should have
been better prepared.

We lost, period end of story!

In strategic terms it was at best a pyhrric vicotry for
the IJN

PS please dont post using HTML

Keith