Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "Pearl Harbor: The Japanese Attack" video.

Actually it is known that the Japanese fleet did not keep radio silence as the ship which regularly travel between San Francisco and Honolulu had been picking up the radio signalt. When it arrived in Honolulu this information was passed on to the military authorities but was not acted up on. As for the midget submarines one did carry out an attack inside Pearl Harbour but with all else which was going on its presence was missed. The sub itself was lost so its success was not recorded at the time. I believe there is a photograph in existence showing a torpedo attack at Pearl which was not from an aircraft. As for Bringing America into the war the Japanese would have been better off leaving American territory alone entirely as there was no evidence America was joining the war any time soon. So deciding to attack any of US territory was a huge strategic error on the part of the Japanese. And the Japanese did plan to attack the fuel storage area but had left it to the second wave as they did not want the smoke from the burning fuel to obscure targets. In the assessment by the US after the attack it was said that the loss of this fuel would have kept the US out of the Pacific for 18 months and would have led to the fleet moving to the American west coast. The Japanese were so fixated with sinking the carriers they forgot that depriving them with fuels would have rendered them just as ineffective.
1
The lose of the oil tanks would have forced the US Navy to withdraw as they could not have supplied their ships. Interestingly having told us that attacking the oil tanks would have diverted a substantial amount of plane when there aim was to destroy US ships, you then say that this reduced the strategic disadvantage for the Americans was limited. So diverting aircraft to destroy the oil tanks would have been an advantage to the Japanese after all. Especially as America admitted this would have force the navy to withdraw. Your logic is faulty
1