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December 4, 1941

*Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox: "no matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."

*The Chicago Tribune and the Washington Herald publish FDR's top secret plan to invade Europe in 1943.

*12 Marine fighters are launched from USS Enterprise for Wake Island. (Japanese intelligence at this time reports that as of 28 November Enterprise is still at Pearl.) TF-8, consisting of Enterprise, the heavy cruisers Northampton (CA-26), Chester (CA-27), and Salt Lake City (CA-24) and nine destroyers under Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., set course to return to Pearl Harbor.

Also in the Pacific:

*The Japanese landing force bound for Malaya sets out from Hainan.

Meanwhile, half a world away:

*#### ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts.

*The Wehrmacht offensive remains stalled outside Moscow, as German troops are ill-equipped to deal with the unseasonably frigid weather.

*General Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps continues to contain Tobruk's garrison, while simultaneously trying to send help to Axis garrisons at Bardia, Sollum, and Halfaya Pass.




Dawn

DeeEss57 wrote:December 4, 1941

*Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox: "no matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."

Wow, he ate his words! Its just a good thing the attack didn't actually put the base out of commission or the U.S. would have really been in a pickle. They failed to destroy the fuel storage and maintainance ability, really making the attack a failure on a military level.

wang_chi7 wrote: Wow, he ate his words! Its just a good thing the attack didn't actually put the base out of commission or the U.S. would have really been in a pickle. They failed to destroy the fuel storage and maintainance ability, really making the attack a failure on a military level.

If the Japanese had really wanted to cripple the US in the Pacific, they should have invaded Hawaii. It seems they may have easily overwhelmed the forces there. With the way to the West Coast open to the Japanese, I think the US would have been forced to sue for peace.


Dawn