> In 1942, the US built 46,000 aircraft, with no category of plane having less than a thousand built save for very heavy bombers.
Since this post is from the Japanese perspective, this is a bit of a narrative break into the historians perspective. So my question is, to what extent Japanese aware of this figure (whatever it was up to) by mid 1942.
I explained in part 1, but the Japanese knew they couldn't compete in any kind of attrition or long-term warfare against the US. America's economy and industry was too large, too developed, and too widespread to beat with Japan's abilities. Japanese leaders knew this for a long time, hence Yamamoto's desire for a knock-out blow at Pearl Harbor to keep the US occupied and unable to deal with their territorial expansion.
The exact numbers of planes don't really matter for this reason. Whether they knew or not, they were correct to plan on avoiding any war in which US production would matter.
> In 1942, the US built 46,000 aircraft, with no category of plane having less than a thousand built save for very heavy bombers.
Since this post is from the Japanese perspective, this is a bit of a narrative break into the historians perspective. So my question is, to what extent Japanese aware of this figure (whatever it was up to) by mid 1942.
I explained in part 1, but the Japanese knew they couldn't compete in any kind of attrition or long-term warfare against the US. America's economy and industry was too large, too developed, and too widespread to beat with Japan's abilities. Japanese leaders knew this for a long time, hence Yamamoto's desire for a knock-out blow at Pearl Harbor to keep the US occupied and unable to deal with their territorial expansion.
The exact numbers of planes don't really matter for this reason. Whether they knew or not, they were correct to plan on avoiding any war in which US production would matter.
"He could only hope it had not noticed"
This should maybe be "He could only hope it had not *been* noticed." or "He could only hope his transmission had not been noticed."
Edit: maybe the "it" in that sentence is Midway itself.
Thanks, fixed!
Looking forward to part 3!