During the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, why didn t Nagumo bomb the oil depot?

First of all, let's understand why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. During World War II, China's tenacious resistance greatly hindered Japan's aggressive plans, resulting in Japan's need to postpone its southward advance. Due to the shortage of oil resources in Japan at that time, Japan decided to make a desperate attempt to blow up Pearl Harbor under such internal and external troubles.

But the results don't seem to be good. The United States, which had been neutral, now had a reason to join the war, and later dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. led to the surrender of Japan.

Oil is an important strategic resource, and blowing up the oil depot can greatly damage the vitality of the United States. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, why didn't it choose to blow up the oil depot as well? Because heavy oil is stored in oil storage tanks, it cannot be blown up completely.

Japan thought that it would be a waste of bombs and troops, so it did not choose to act. Secondly, Japan is a small island country, resources are very scarce, and oil is a very precious resource. Japan does not think that the United States can expose such important resources so easily, and there must be fraud in them.

Another reason was that the time for Japan's sneak attack was limited at that time, so the targets of the attack were all places of high strategic value, and it was necessary to make preparations again to organize an effective bombing operation, and the time was certainly insufficient. If you insist on blowing it up, you will definitely have a head-on conflict with the United States at this time, which will go against the original intention of the sneak attack. Finally, wars provoked by countries such as Japan are aimed at invading the territory of other countries.

Japan may have felt that Pearl Harbor was a good strategic point and would be owned by itself in the future, so it was lighter. <>

World War II ended with the defeat of countries such as Japan. With the rapid development of nuclear power, countries have restrained each other and ushered in a considerable period of peace. Recently, there has been a dispute between Iran and the United States, and various countries are paying close attention. We all look forward to eternal peace in the world!

Many people have made many assumptions about the attack on Pearl Harbor, but alas, these assumptions are not only hindsight, but also very good! First of all, if Japan carried out 10,000 air strikes on Pearl Harbor, could it completely destroy it, and the answer is that even with the atomic bomb, Hiroshima did not disappear. Then some people will say that the more serious the damage, the longer the United States will use it as a base to attack Japan.

So let's talk about Japan, how long did it take for them to occupy the Pacific islands and then make them bases? So will it be difficult for the United States, which far surpasses Japan in terms of delivery and capacity (freighters, infrastructure capacity and resources), to turn a desert island into a military base? Second, oil is important, but does Pearl Harbor store one-fifth or more of the oil in the United States?

In fact, the oil stored at Pearl Harbor had little impact on the war between the United States and Japan. Japan crippled the Pacific Fleet in order to gain time to plunder the oil resources of Southeast Asia. Finally, if we take 10,000 steps back, can Japan completely destroy and destroy the Pearl Harbor oil depot, and can it really have an impact on the operations of the Pacific Fleet?

The answer is that it has no effect, it just cheapens the American oil companies and the shipping companies that transport the oil. It doesn't have to be Pearl Harbor for refueling, but it can also be supplied by supply ships.

Why are some people very Zhuge Liang? First, there is a lack of wisdom in the world. Second, greed has no overall view, because greed and treachery forcibly occupied Jingzhou and fought against Eastern Wu, which eventually led to the result of endless death.

I didn't realize that Jingyi and the two states couldn't help each other and couldn't build a country, and I didn't understand the truth that it was difficult to defend it alone and lose it for a long time.

It's useless, the United States is not short of that bit of oil, in Nagumo Tadaichi's opinion, it is not worth the risk of sending a third wave of attack troops, he must keep it as much as possible, after all, the Pacific War has just begun.

Because there was a great shortage of oil in Japan at that time, and the oil depots were built underground, Nagumo should not believe that there was oil in the oil depots, not to mention that if the third wave of bombing was not effective, it would lose a lot of aircraft.

Now there is an argument that Pearl Harbor was tacitly agreed by the United States and Japan to join World War II for the sake of the United States at a small price and for a high-sounding reason.

Because if you bomb the oil depot at that time, you will inevitably attract the attention of the enemy army, and you will lose your real combat objective.

The thief was very bold at the beginning of the crime, and once he succeeded in achieving a certain goal, he would accept it when he saw it. I'm afraid that if something happens, the gains outweigh the losses. Judging the Japanese should be ...... with criminal minds

After the war, there was a common view that Nagumo Tadaichi's failure to send a third wave of attack forces to carry out the final blow on the docks, oil depots, and other key facilities in Pearl Harbor was an important cause of Japan's defeat, and that Nagumo's mistake was due to another hidden motive.

This was due to the fact that the Japanese headquarters had not included the bombing of the oil depot in the plan at all, and Nagumo knew that it was a thankless affair and he seriously suspected that the American oil tanks were empty. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor is a well-known event during World War II, but although this strategy brought Japan a certain degree of small benefits, it was actually a major defeat strategy when looking at the overall situation. For the defeat of Japan's Pearl Harbor, many people put the blame on the commander Nagumo, believing that he should not have chosen not to bomb the US oil depot in such an important battle.

However, many people don't know that Nagumo bombs the oil depot from every aspect, and even other commanders will not choose to bomb the oil depot.

The first reason is that the bombing of oil depots is thankless.

The shell of the container containing the heavy oil of the United States is very hard, and even if Nagumo were to blow it up with a bomb, it would definitely not be able to blow it all up. Doing this will not only fail to achieve the desired results, but will also greatly damage Japan's military goods. What is even more serious is that there must be a large number of US troops guarding the oil depot, and if the oil depot is to be blown up, then the planes and pilots who went there will not be able to return.

You must know that soldiers and military items are very important in war, and Nagumo will definitely not take this risk to fry the oil depot.

The second reason is that the aircraft carriers of the US military have not yet appeared.

If you want to win on the battlefield, you need to look at the big picture, develop effective strategies and use military supplies wisely. In the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan had limited ammunition to carry, and the U.S. aircraft carriers had not yet been shown, so if Nagumo used a large amount of ammunition to bomb the oil depots, it would not be able to resist the sudden arrival of U.S. aircraft carriers. Therefore, in order to take into account the overall situation, Nagumo finally chose to cancel the attack.

For the third reason, Nagumo guessed that the U.S. oil tank was empty.

During that time, oil was in short supply in Japan, so Nagumo seriously suspected that the American oil tanks were empty and that there was no heavy oil in them. Later, intelligence officer Yoshikawa ventured into the American oil depot and confirmed that the tank was indeed empty.

Because of the suddenness of the bombing, Japan's intelligence work was not very detailed, and there was no specific reconnaissance. So the location of the oil depot was not determined, and there was no time to look for it.

In fact, the oil depot had already been bombed at that time, but the US counterattack was very timely, so it was not completely successful.

Japan did not target the US oil depot at all! This is because Yoshikawa, a well-known spy who infiltrated Pearl Harbor in front of the station, clearly sent back information that the heavy oil tanks in the open air of Pearl Harbor were empty!

Nagumo believed that the Japanese army would soon be able to land on the island of Hawaii, and that the island's oil depot could also replenish the Japanese army.

No, the only result of an attack on Pearl Harbor could only be to force the United States to send troops to Japan, regardless of the effectiveness of its strike.

For a protracted war like World War II, the gains and losses of one city and one pool could not determine the entire war situation. At that time, the main purpose of the Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor was to expand into the sphere of influence of the United States, such as Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands. In other words, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan's aggression against the United States had just begun, so why should the United States stop there?

The reason for a country to withdraw from war is that the belligerent is unable to continue the war or has reached some kind of agreement with the belligerents. The side that cannot afford to continue the war may be because of the exile of the regime and the collapse of the economy. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the destruction of military bases and fleets led to what kind of agreement did Japan reach with the United States?

Let Washington fall? Or did it trigger the Boxer Rebellion in the United States?

Pearl Harbor was completely paralyzed, but the continental United States was unaffected, still with strong industrial production capacity and economic strength sufficient to sustain the war effort. Is it difficult for the United States to rebuild its combat capabilities to fight the Japanese army? Moreover, at that time, the aircraft carriers of the US military were not in the port, and they were retained.

Why should the United States sit idly by and watch its influence in the Pacific be eroded by Japan? It can only be a counterattack.

If we insist on giving history an if, it is better to assume that the Japanese navy finally occupied Oahu and controlled the Pacific Ocean, which greatly delayed the participation of the US military in the Pacific War, and Japan had time to exploit the resources of the Pacific Ocean and free up its hands to flank the Soviet Union with Germany, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

If you're going to talk about whether the United States will withdraw from the war, you shouldn't be focusing on Pearl Harbor at all. If you compare all the wars horizontally, is there any country that withdrew from the war because a military base was destroyed? What's more, the United States is still an unrestrained, impulsive, and martial nation, and it can be endured by Japan in this way?

Nothing is possible. Even if you wipe out the entire Pacific Fleet of the United States, it will be restored in more than 2 years at most under the great power of the United States.

Do you think anyone would be able to endure this? That would only delay the time for the United States to counterattack Japan, but the United States did not lose its domestic industry in the slightest, and although Japan may have continued to expand in Asia for a longer period of time (but also weakened its power in some areas), it will not be able to compete with the industrial capacity of the United States. At the end of the European war, the United States will attack Japan with all its might, and it is only a matter of time before Japan will be defeated.

Think about it, which country can still have the ability to help other countries after the war is over? Fully demonstrated his human, material, agricultural, industrial capabilities.

The paralysis of Pearl Harbor is, at most, that the United States cannot use this military base temporarily, and the US aircraft carriers are still there, and the United States, as the largest industrial country at that time, once its industrial production capacity is transformed into wartime production, aircraft carriers will be continuously transported to the battlefield, and Japan's wartime production capacity can only be regarded as scum, and even if Pearl Harbor is erased from the map, it will only delay the effective attack of the United States against Japan.

I have read a book on world history, saying that if Pearl Harbor's oil depots, bed repair factories, submarine depots, and other shore-based facilities were bombed, the United States would not be allowed to withdraw, and if the Japanese bombed, they would only gain an advantage for the whole year of 1942.

No, the United States will inevitably enter the war, the Pearl Harbor incident just let it, the goal of the United States is world hegemony and the international market, if it does not enter the war, whether fascist victory or anti-fascist victory, the United States will be isolated on the American continent, and the world's main markets and energy are in Europe, Asia and Africa, the economic crisis of the United States in 1929 is because of overcapacity, and the world's main market is monopolized by Britain and France, Roosevelt's New Deal only suppressed the American economic crisis, if there is no huge international market to release the United States' excess capacity, then the US economy will be further sluggish, the United States will be weakened, so in order to compete for world hegemony, the United States will inevitably enter the war, and the laws of the fascist alliance are not democratic enough, relatively speaking, to help the so-called free world represented by Britain, the interests are greater.

The main industrial facilities of the United States are not in Hawaii. Blowing it all up will only make it cooler for the United States to retaliate

Hello!! After a successful sneak attack, they are no longer capable of carrying out a new round of strikes. According to the current declassification, the US military was looking for another "excuse to enter the war" at that time, the main warships sent out a few old battleships in the port, and the three aircraft carriers all went to sea, and this is only the US Pacific Fleet, and the US fleet in the Atlantic and the home fleet still has great strength.

In addition, the fuel and bombs brought were very limited, and it was impossible to take Pearl Harbor in one go, and if Pearl Harbor was to be completely abolished, it was necessary to have the participation of the army or marines to carry out ground destruction, but the Japanese army really did not have the ability to conduct multi-sided operations at that time.

1.If you don't fight, then Japan will wait for death. The essential reason for Japan's sneak attack on the United States is that Japan is stuck in the neck of resources, so the army under the control of the ** decided to expand and plunder resources, after getting the resources of Northeast China, the Japanese military department after several disputes, and finally decided to use the superior navy to go south to Southeast Asia to plunder the rich local resources, but this will inevitably directly conflict with the United States and Britain, Japan knows the strength advantage of the United States, and is also afraid, but under the dual effect of insufficient resources and military pressure, it finally decided to take a risk and get Southeast Asia, If the Americans are unwilling to compromise at the negotiating table, Japan will attack Pearl Harbor, the main base of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, and strike first to forcibly destroy the US Navy's naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region.

Although the United States will inevitably regain its strength in two years, at least in two years, Japan will definitely feel that it is safe to expand in the Asia-Pacific region.

2.What are you going to do? It's called a 97 torpedo bomber, and it's good to hang an 800-kilogram torpedo or armor-piercing shell, and the intended target is a battleship of the US Navy.

After throwing, of course, the task will be completed, and the direct evacuation will meet at the predetermined assembly place to count their losses and then return home.

3.The Japanese planes took off 230 nautical miles away from Pearl Harbor, and the range was sufficient, and the formation commander had to be responsible for commanding, and he could not evacuate after dropping the bombs himself. However, there is something wrong with your statement, Mitsuo Fuchida was the commander of the first wave of 183 aircraft, and the second wave of 171 aircraft took off at the same time as the first wave of bombing, and it was not under his command.