Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "[Pacific] Balance of Force \u0026 Operating Conditions in 1941" video.

  1. The Japanease navy had 15 large aircraft carriers, 15 light aircraft carrier, 5 escort carriers, 18 cruisers, 25 light cruisers, 169 destroyers, 184 submarines in World War two. That's a lot of crewmen and lot's of tons of steel. But how many of those japanease warships have survided the war and can be visited today? One. A midget submarine at Pearl Harbor.
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  2. Is it possible for the Japanese to defeat the allied Pacific? No. The Americans were pissed off, and racist attitudes fueled the anger even further. And one just have to look at the production numbers to see how many much more carriers and other types of warships America built under the war, and then one should also remember that America also canceled many construction projects at the end of the war when victory seemed certain.. like for example the Montana Class battleship that have been mentioned. America also built more warplanes in just one year than Japan did under the entire war. And on top of all this was Japan involved in a meatgrinder in China, and at war with USSR, UK, Netherland, and Australia as well. The only advantages japan had was shinto and a little battle experince. But America had the industrial and technological advantage, and soon also superior quality of the weaponsystems. Japan managed to conquer the most resource rich area in the world with anything a large industry could ask for, but Japan didn't have any transport capacity to move all resources back to Japan. Their large merchant navy was too small for the task, and when the Army needed to get transported and supplied the strain on the transport capacity increased even further. And as ships got sunked by allied submarines and planes, the situation got unbearable. Japan could only transport the absolutly most important resources for their industry, and she was forced to abandon her imperialist-mercantilist trade policies designed to plunder her conquered provinces and outcompete their industries. Instead was Japan now forced to allow her colonies more independence, and open their own industries since the homeland could no longer supply them by sea, and they had to do their own foodproduction as well since nothing could be imported. And the inflation rose and causing harm.
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  3. I was refering to ships that could be visited without a scubadiving kit or a mini-submarine... if you get what I mean ;-)
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