The aircraft carrier Kaga that participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor was sunk 6 months later in the Battle of Midway.
JS Kaga was launched in 2015.
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
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Ah yes, I remember the battle of Midway...
Sir, the memes are banking out of the rising sun.
To be fair, that would end up being pretty far from Japan's greatest military disgrace, as they continually outdid themselves in every type of disgrace for the next few years. I nominate the Battle of the Phillipine Sea, also known as the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot:
However, that wouldn't make the meme work as well
I don't think Iroh meant disgrace as in failure, more disgrace as in shameful, he regretted his military endeavours. Pearl Harbour, being a surprise attack on a neutral party, could arguably also be regarded as a shameful disgrace.
Pearl Harbour
Leave your extra letters out of this.
And I don't think the surprise attack is necessarily a shameful disgrace, the disgraceful part is that it completely backfired. Japan wanted to knock the US out of the war, but instead the attack motivated the US to go on the offensive. Talk about completely missing the mark...
If they just chilled for a bit, maybe the US wouldn't have noticed.
Spiritual failure, not a tactical failure.
In my (very limited) experience, the get-togethers of US and Japanese WWII vets at Pearl Harbor are grim, tediously polite affairs.
The ones in Vietnam are morr jovial, and taken less seriously.
The Japanese navy has been there a few times. They're super nice.
Nah, it's been that kind of year. Bye 2024, you were a real Felicia. ⛓️