
Pearl Harbor episode 3: Countdown to the raid
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The Japanese Pension for Surprise Attacks
Kimmel made another terrible misjudgment, says steve. The prospect of the japanese launching a surprise attack shouldn't have been such a surprise after all. Pearl harbor is as harbors go, shallow, at its deepest point it's only about forty five feet. A torpedo weighs like two thousand pounds and before it can actually begin its run under water toward a ship, it ill dive quite deeply.
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