Konpeki no Kantai::Volume1 Chapter3
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Konpeki no Kantai Volume 1 Chapter 3
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In Hawaii it was 4:30am, December 7th.
In Tokyo, it was midnight of the 8th.
Takasugi Eisaku, vice admiral of the mobile air strike force in charge of the advance strikes against the Hawaiian Islands, was at this time in the ocean about 230 nautical miles (about 430 kilometers) north of Oahu…
"It is finally time."
His eyes fixed on the second hand moving around, about to reach twelve, Commander in Chief Takasugi raised his eyes to the pitch dark sea.
"The war has started."
The Fleet Chief of Staff, Inouemon Tataisa, his expression tense, opened the telegram they'd received.
- Climb Mount Niitaka
"All right. Signal the start of the attack."
"Yessir."
The high speed battleship "Hiei" transmitted "Tora, tora, tora."
- In those days, Taiwan being Japanese territory, the highest peak, Mount Niitaka (at 3997 meters, higher than Mount Fuji. Presently Mount Yushan) was associated with the decision to start the war, in the old world the telegram had been sent on December 2nd. "Tora tora tora", in the old world, meant "the surprise attack has succeeded."
In this way commenced the first act of the destined outbreak of war...
However, compared to the great war of the previous world, the attack on Hawaii was quite different.
Already, the first wave of our attack forces had reached the skies over Oahu.
In the attack on Pearl Harbor in the previous world, fighter aircraft launched from the aircraft carrier Akagi at 6am local time. Following them, the Nagumo Task Force's six carriers launched their attack forces one by one, Mitsubishi A6M Zeroes, Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers and Aichi D3A dive bombers. A total of 183 aircraft swooped down on their targets...
This happened at 7:55 in the morning.
However, it was obviously a surprise attack. Because of this, Japan aroused the hostility of the American citizenry, in a single stroke bringing them into a state of war.
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