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RE: A thread of strategy, tactics, and tips? - 8/24/2007 1:23:52 AM

Joe D.

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ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckm�hl

... That Fuchida has come to be recognized as such a shameless liar is not a product Western revisionists but of Japanese historians who have pored over the logs of the Kido Butai's airgroups, and proven as much ...

Respectfully, can we dispense with Fuchida's account(s) of the Battle of Midway?

PoE (aka ivanmoe)

Re the intro to Shattered Sword: Fuchida's Midway was "irretrievably flawed" and his misstatements were "willful distortions of the truth." His account of the battle was discounted in Japan >20 years ago, but somehow he has remained an authority on Midway in the West to this very day.

But not for PoE, wherever on the compass he is.

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