From: "Guinnog65" lid
Date: 9/22/2004 12:20 PM Central Daylight Time
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My point was that the defences at both outposts of empire were perhaps
ineffective *because* the US and UK defenders under-rated the fighting
abilities of the Japanese and had therefore not planned for the events which
subsequently took place. As a look up the thread would confirm.


And your anti American bias is showing here too. The U.S. was nowhere near
being an "empire" at the time.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired