War In The Pacific Admiral Edition Crack
Vinnie Breidenthal
Unfortunately tragedy struck! Unbeknown to Allied forces, the Japanese carrier fleet, Kido Butai, was heading to Wake Island after it's attack on Pearl Harbour. After-the-fact intelligence figures that, with talks of an unsuccessful initial landing, the Kido Butai was redirected there to engage American forces. The results were not pretty. Though the heavy cruisers escorting Lexington had detached themselves to attempt to interdict naval vessels in surface combat, the destroyer escorts were no match for the mass quantities of planes in the air. CV Lexington was hit by numerous bombs and torpedoes, and quickly capsized and sunk. All hands on deck were lost. The same can be said for destroyers escorting it, with them taking heavy casualties in the afternoon follow up attack. Two of the three heavy cruisers were also detected and sunk in the afternoon. In the aftermath, only the CA Portland was able to escape back to Pearl Harbour. Following the loss, all surface vessels in the central pacific have been recalled to Pearl Harbour. The convoy heading to Wake Island to resupply it has been diverted to Midway Island. Only submarine forces will be operating in the theater until further notice.
World War 1 has come and gone and the world has settled into an uneasy peace. Fearful of the growing strength of Japan, the United States created a series of plans in case of a pacific war with Japan. Their name: War Plan Orange.
Admiral Gary Roughead, a four-star admiral who recently retired as the United States' Chief of Naval Operations, will deliver a lecture entitled "Sea Power and National Security in the 21st Century: Why Navies Matter" at Yale Law School on Thursday, April 17. The lecture, which will take place from 4:10-5:30 p.m. in Room 128, is open to the public.
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