Happy to announce that we'll have We Lost The Sea joining us next week for another AMA, our second one with them!
EDIT: Had to push back by one day - same time but the date is now:
April 17 @ 11pm GMT
Which is actually Friday Saturday morning if you're in Australia... You can find/convert the date & time using this website.
Cheers!
Admiral Nimitz: Three Mistakes Japan Made At Pearl Harbor Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow everyone of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.
Mistake number three: every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America.
https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/admiral-nimitz-three-mistakes-japan-made-at-pearl-harbor.38550/
*Interesting relevant link messaged
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a407830.pdf
By far, the more surprising target oversight of the Japanese attack was the oil and gas storage tanks. The entire fuel supply for the Pacific Fleet was stored in above ground tanks on the eastern side of the naval base, (see Figure 2). As can be seen from the photo, these tanks were perfectly visible to the naked eye and, ergo, perfect targets.28 These tanks were particularly susceptible to enemy action; none of the tanks had bombproof covers.29 Even a few bombs dropped amongst the tanks could have started a raging conflagration.30 Why werenít these crucial targets hit? Their loss would have essentially starved the U.S. Navy out of the Central Pacific.31 Didnít the Japanese know they were there? The Japanese knew all about those oil storage tanks. Their failure to bomb the Fleetís oil supply reflected their preoccupation with tactical rather than logistical targetsÖNagumoís mission was to destroy Kimmelís ships and the airpower on Oahu. If Yamamoto and his advisers chose the wrong targets, or insufficiently diversified ones, the mistake rests on their shouldersÖ32 Pearl Harborís the only filling station in town
Are there any instrumentals on Crimea and The Quietest Place On Earth or do all tracks have vocals?
Thanks.
I randomly started watching this show and recognized every song that played. Officially one of my favorite recent shows to binge, I highly recommend it not just for the amazing soundtrack.
https://youtu.be/ClSWxwwUYkw
