Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Why Japan had NO Chance in WW2" video.

@frankydman "Luck played a massive role at Midway though, you literally cannot deny that. Had the Japanese found the Americans first, well..." Actually, that was almost baked into the plan. They knew that they would eventually be facing the reconnaissance assets of the island PLUS the American fleet. Even if the Yorktown was out of it like they thought, and despite the overall Japanese numerical superiority in assets, the US was going to have more recon assets LOCALLY than the Japanese. The key to Japan winning the recon battle in the Japanese planning was SURPRISE. They would supposedly know when to deploy their recon assets, and the US would not. The bad luck for the Japanese occurred earlier when US military intel broke the Japanese naval code. After that, and given the order of battle, it would have been a stunning stroke of luck if the Japanese had found the US fleet first.
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