Attract on Pearl Harbor question,?

Question

The japs launched two waves of torpedo bombers and never launcher the trird or fourth. Why didn't they and why didn'tthey atact the west coast, California, Oregon and Washington? What is your opinion?

Gotta love those grammer police!!

Answer 1

They had no trouble with the first wave of attacks and only slight resistance with the second. Yamamoto was convinced he had destroyed the fleet and had put the American war machine back years. He had good intelligence and went ahead even though he knew the aircraft carriers were not at Pearl Harbor. The battle for the Atlantic was the beginning of the carrier and the subs which he missed and then turned around... Phew...

Answer 2

The admiral of the Japanese figured that launching a third wave to attack would have been dangerous without being able to account for the 3 US Carriers. For fear of losing any of his ships he ordered them to return home. This proved very costly. Many historians figure that if Japan would have launched a third wave to attack the remaining ships in the harbor that the US Pacific Fleet would have to start from scratch.

Also the admiral did not realize how much damage the first two waves had caused. At this point he figured that Pearl harbor and the airfields were on high alert and ready for another attack. He thought that his planes would be cut down if they tried to attack. He didn't realize that the people of Pearl harbor were concentrating on the rescue efforts. While there were soldiers at their battle stations many of these stations had been destroyed.

Japan never attacked the west coast because of the distance between Japan and it. At the time many of the ships in production had a limited range and needed to stop somewhere to refuel. This is why Pearl harbor was such a strategic place. It provided a stepping stone for the US fleet in the Pacific. Had Japan invaded Hawaii, nothing would have stopped them from attacking the west coast

Answer 3

After the second Wave, Nagumo decided to leave because the US carriers weren't in port and they were afraid of retaliation. The Japanese had plans to invade Hawaii but they shelved the plan after the Battle of Midway. The Japanes did not attack the West Coast in any major way but there was a submarine captain who shelled part of the coast where a few years earlier he fell and thought he lost face. Now there also unsubstantiated rumors of bombs attached to balloons that the Japanese sent to try and bomb Washington, Oregon, and California but of course most of them fell far short of there target with only a couple of those bombs landing without exploding.

Answer 4

Honest got it right. The Japanese was VERY worried about the US Carriers. When the first wave returned with the report that NO carriers were at Pearl, the Japanese just about fainted. As soon as the 2nd wave returned to their ships, they split. If they had been smart, they would have hunted down our carriers. As our carriers were not fully armed and our planes inferior to those of the Japanese, they probably would have ended sitting on the bottom of something much deeper than Pearl Harbor.

Answer 5

Because our carriers weren't at Pearl they were worried about them retaliating!
Attcking the west coast was never in their plans.
They didn't believe America would declare war on them.That America would sue for peace allowing them to keep all the territory they conquered!

Answer 6

Many of the Japanese pilots wanted to launch a third wave, but the task force commander, Admiral Nagumo, feared a possible counter-attack by American carriers, which were not in the harbor. The leader of the first wave, Commander Fuchida, was very critical of Nagumo for this decision.

There never was a plan to move directly against the American west coast after the Pearl Harbor raid. The Japanese strategy was to cripple the US Pacific Fleet (by the attack on Pearl Harbor), then move throughout southeast Asia (conquering mineral rich areas in the Dutch Indies). While Japan was proceeding with its conquest of southeast Asia (forming what it called the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere), its military leadership planned to from a defensive bastion in the central Pacific in order to hold off any American counter-offensive. After Japan had consolidated its hold on southeast Asia, the Imperial Japanese Navy planned to move against the American Navy and defeat it.

The Japanese war plans against the United States were developed mostly by Admiral Yamamoto, but he did not believe that it would work. Yamamoto stated that the Japanese would "run wild" for about six months, but he felt that the American industrial might would eventually win out. The Battle of Midway, the turning point of the war, occurred in June of 1942, the six months after Pearl Harbor that Yamamoto predicted.

Answer 7

The americans created the diversion that there were 3rd and 4th attacks to keep Americans satisfied. The media was then able to show how america was only hit 1/2 as hard as it really was. Pearl Harbor the movie was a mind warping garbage fiesta where future generations are now taught a distorted past.