 Re: Could Hawaii hve been invaded
The Japanese Navy studied invading Hawaii and decided that they simply did not have the merchant ship capacity to supply an invading and occupation force, as well as the captive population.
However, that view might have changed had they won the Battle of Midway and erased the American Navy from the equation.
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