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Old 06-09-2014, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Dillon View Post
The Imperial Japanese Staff expected us to sue for peace rather than respond to the attack. That's pretty well documented by Samuel Eliot Morison, among others.
"Sue for peace" who did they think we were Pansies like we have in control today?

That's what I was alluding to by not entering the war.

I know that towards the end of the war the Navy had things pretty cleaned up. My Grandfather, being a Seabee, was ordered by an Admiral to build a small golf course on one of the islands so he could play when he wanted.