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2008年9月21日日曜日

Why was Germany and Japan never able to invade or Bomb the Unites States except for Pearl Harbor? -

The USA invaded Germany and bombed Germany and Japan all through the the time the USA was in WW2 so why was Japan or Germany never able to bomb the USA cities or invade? Dec 7th 1942 at Pearl Harbor was the only time that Japan was able to fly planes over US soil correct? Hitler s German army, air force, or navy was never able to bomb or launch rockets onto U.S.A soil, why was that? Is not this amazing?

Because it was too far. The US bombers took off from the UK to bomb Germany and took off from other islands or aircraft carriers to bomb Japan. No plane in the world at that time could have crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific twice without refueling and I m certain that the US would have had something to say to that if German or Japanese bombers had asked to refuel on US land. The Germans had no aircraft carriers and the Japanese were not crazy enough to waste an aircraft carrier and its shield just to send a few bombs on the US, because they knew that the fleet would not have survived the trip back after that. So no bombing of US land. The U boots however massacred cargo ships right on the US coast when the US entered the war, catching the US by surprise.

The big thing, distance! Planes back then didn t have the capacity to go from Germany, or Japan to the coast of the USA, bomb it, then return home. Even today it s hard to do without midair refueling. Japan did undertake a balloon bombing towards (I think) the end of the war, a few actually made it to the USA and actually killed a few people. This was quickly covered up so Japan didn t learn that it actually succeeded and launched more. As a result Japan abandoned the plans. And I think there is a report of a Japanese submarine shelling the coast of the Western USA (forget where), but everything caused little damage, and cover-ups prevented any panics, and further shellings. The Japanese did invade the islands of Attu and Kiska in June of 1942 (a decoy part of the mission that also invaded Midway). To realistically do any major landings of the Continental US, Japan or Germany would have needed control of the seas, and air to even think about a landing. Japan never really thought about it, their strategy involved creating a perimeter defense that would prove too costly for the Allies to beat, leading them to sue for peace. Germany, they never had control of the seas. If they couldn t land troops on Britain, way closer than the USA, they couldn t hope to even start an operation of landing on the USA.

They were too busy getting their respective butts kicked to offer a counter-offensive.

To understand this you have to know of the tecnology of that period. What we take for granted today would be science-fiction in the 1940s. Germany had England right at its doorstep so the United States was not top priority. The US used England as a base of operations and thus was able to invade Europe unlike what Germany could never do to the US. Germany did send several submarines to the Eastern Coast but as soon as our anti submarine tactics improved long distance became suicidle. I believe German submariners had a casualty rate of 80%! Japan invaded Peral Harbor but remember at the time Hawaii was not a state. Japan s approach was to destroy our fleet and defend it s conquored teritory until the US wanted peace. At the time this was not far fetched because each island/battle would be a hard fought campaign and planning event. Throughout history very few countries have won two front wars. Japan did send ballon bombs against us but they were weak at best and not relable. Both enemy countries underestimated the US resolve, and overestimated their own strength. After a year or two of Allied victories these countries could never gain an offesive advantage or even have the oppurtunity again.

your answer is Midway and England... the us airforce was able to refuel in england/midway en route... air craft carriers were not part of the german navy and their long range bombers couldn t reach over the atlantic nor could the japanese over the pacific. yes, commercial airplanes could cover these distances... but: those weren t carrying tons of ordnance nor did they have to return without refuelling. (and they weren t shot at...) the japanse/american naval warfare was a tad bit more complicated, but it runs down to the fact, that the americans gained superiority on sea in rather short time over the japanese. the germans on the other hand concentrated on their submarines and did quite a lot of damage that way in the pacific.

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