Re: What IF: Japan Tried a Block****p at Pearl Harbor ?

In article <d9f180dd-4d83-42fa-bb1a-
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>, robdab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> Paul J. Adam,
> 
> > The IJN were also rather fond of dragging enemy sailors and airmen out
> of the water, beheading them, and throwing the bits back. I don't see
> concern for the survival of the passengers being a factor.<
> 
> Neither do I. As I've already posted to this thread, I see any US
> passengers as a large and entirely unnecessary security risk to a
> lightly manned IJN block****p. An hour or two to transfer them to an
> IJN war****p or auxilliary requires not nearly the Japanese effort that
> constantly guarding them on the trip across the northern Pacific would
> need.
> 
> Why do you fixate on this one tiny detail of my scenario when overall
> the plan leads to so much more mayhem than occurred in the OTL ?

How would they be a security risk ?
The approach to PH would be in the early morning hours before most would 
be awake.

Even if one did notice a different approach to land they could easily 
dismiss it as having been directed by the US.





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