[Remember]:deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II

[CarveTheFive]

Clever retort.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Clever retort.

Your knee-jerk response didn't deserve better. Being ignorant of the facts of the matter doesn't stop people from commenting, but it does leave them open to scathing responses from people who have actually studied the matter.

[Ranjr]

Pearl Harbor was a military target.

The Tokyo Fire Bombing was cowardly terrorism against civilians. Totally shameful and inexcusable.

Pearl Harbor was a cowardly attack.  The Japanese lacked the gumption to formally declare war.  You are just mad because your religion and it's hateful theology has failed you.  That is why you're here.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Pearl Harbor was a military target.

Yup

The Tokyo Fire Bombing was cowardly terrorism against civilians. Totally shameful and inexcusable.

Nope it was a valid target

Furthermore were you just as outraged by JAPAN'S use of fire bombs on "civilian" targets BEFORE the US did it in Japan

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Pearl Harbor was a military target.

The Tokyo Fire Bombing was cowardly terrorism against civilians. Totally shameful and inexcusable.

The outcome of NOT making the raid on Tokyo would have allowed imperial war production in that area to continue unimpeded.

If you’re going to accuse someone of cowardice, pin it on the Japanese. Decentralizing war production into a civilian area is EXACTLY the same as using human shields, a cynical, cowardly tactic if ever there was one.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pearl Harbor was a military target.

The Tokyo Fire Bombing was cowardly terrorism against civilians. Totally shameful and inexcusable.

Pearl Harbor was a cowardly attack.  The Japanese lacked the gumption to formally declare war.  You are just mad because your religion and it's hateful theology has failed you.  That is why you're here.

Guimudaijin did finally write a declaration of war, AFTER they learned about the attacks on American and British territories. The military didn't tell them about the start of the Great Pacific War until it had already begun.

I don't blame them, actually.

Telegraph
Telephone
Tell a diplomat

[The Grand Nudger]

Pearl was straight up brilliant. Fun fact, one of (if not the) chief architects of the attack was one of the most vocal critics of war with the us. In the end, seeing that conflict was inevitable, he resigned himself to the necessity of giving his country the best position it could open with.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pearl was straight up brilliant.  Fun fact, one of (if not the) chief architects of the attack was one of the most vocal critics of war with the us.  In the end, seeing that conflict was inevitable, he resigned himself to the necessity of giving his country the best position it could open with.

Yeah, Yamamoto Isoruku threatened to resign if the raid on Pearl Harbor was not authorized. He said that it would not be enough to defeat the US in the Pacific, they would have to march into Washington and dictate surrender terms in the White House.

BUT he said jack shit about any sleeping giant.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Pearl was straight up brilliant.  Fun fact, one of (if not the) chief architects of the attack was one of the most vocal critics of war with the us.  In the end, seeing that conflict was inevitable, he resigned himself to the necessity of giving his country the best position it could open with.

Indeed had it worked the US pacific fleet would have scrap which would helped. Though it would not have won the war .Another interesting fact Yamamoto got his inspiration for the attack from a British fictional work called the THE GREAT PACIFIC WAR and The British Airforce Attack on th Italian port of Taranto during the previous war

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pearl was straight up brilliant.  Fun fact, one of (if not the) chief architects of the attack was one of the most vocal critics of war with the us.  In the end, seeing that conflict was inevitable, he resigned himself to the necessity of giving his country the best position it could open with.

Indeed had it worked the US pacific fleet would have scrap which would helped. Though it would not  have won the war  .Another interesting fact Yamamoto got his inspiration for the attack from a British fictional work called the THE GREAT PACIFIC WAR and The British Airforce Attack on th Italian port of Taranto during the previous war

It was actually Swordfish from the Royal Navy, not the RAF.

And Homer Wallin's book on the Pearl Harbor salvage operation illustrated that sinking ships in shallow harbors is almost a waste of time.