World War Ii Chapter One Introduction and Contents

Ralph Brandt on Jan 2, 2007

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Built on the premise that Roosevelt ordered the fleet to meet the Japanese North of Pearl Harbor on seven December 1941.

A table of chapters appears at the end of this chapter.

This story takes only very limited license with history and technology. First, I have the American government take decisive action against the Japanese on December 6, the premise of the book. Secondly, Admiral Yamamoto is replaced by the Japanese just before the Pearl. This is not an improbability because it almost happened. He wasn’t trusted by the hard liners in Japan. He opposed starting a war he knew Japan could never win but like Robert E. Lee, when his country decided to fight, he gave it his best. Thirdly, some technological advances are developed and utilized a little earlier in the book than in history but they are technologies that could have been advanced if they were pursued. These include the snorkel for the submarine and mid-air refueling of aircraft. Both were possible at the time. The snorkel was only utilized by the Germans later in the war. Mid-air refueling was proven before the war but was not utilized until after the war. Although it plays an important role, the development of the atomic bomb could not have been advanced. It was built on a crash program and it is doubtful it could have been completed earlier, the big limitations were the building of the fuel enrichment plants. Several others like the direction finding on the ocean is possible technically, and was with the vacuum tube technology of 1943. Any of my conclusions can be questioned individually, but my story is plausible.

World War Ii Chapter One Introduction and Contents

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