MUTSU’s true fate?
January 2nd, 2009 From
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>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 97 18:59:44 GMT
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> > This does of course not help to explain why Yamamoto sat the > campaign out in
> > Truk on a brand new 70.000 ton, 27 knots battleship instead of sending it
> > south, as he did with Mutsu.
> > Thus you only explain why the old wagons were not used, and not > why the new
> > ships were simply left where they were. BTW, were was Nagato during
> > Guadalcanal?
> >
> > Tim
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>I think the simple reason was that to Yamamoto, the drive in the Solomons was
>not, in his mind, the main thrust of the American >counter-offensive. He still
>expected that to come through the Central Pacific to the Phillipines. The
>_Yamato_ and the other heavy battleships were to be reserved for the >”decisive
>battle” and not risked in the relatively restricted waters of the Solomons.
>—-
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>Steve Alvin
>Department of Social Sciences
>Illinois Valley Community College
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>salvin@ocslink.com
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>Steve Alvin
>Department of Social Sciences
>Illinois Valley Community College
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>salvin@ocslink.com