Groundhog Thread Part Deux - P-39 Fantasy and Fetish - The Never Ending Story (Mods take no responsibility for head against wall injuries sustained) (4 Viewers)

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Maybe the IJA fighters shot down the IJN aircraft being escorted? Now that would an interesting thing to uncover if it happened, and would support that politics was alive and well in wartime Japan.

But I'm not suggesting it happened that way, just speculating. So please don't say a claim for this this originated with me.
 
Why not? Someone should fill in for Caidin.
 
I think there is documentation that Tojo had tried to have Yamamoto assassinated prior to Pearl Harbor, which is why Yamamoto spent so much time aboard his flagship. It's kinda hard to believe that things could have been that bad between the IJA and IJN, but I've read about it in two different places. so it might be true. Maybe.
 
Interservice rivalry is alive and well today. it was alive and well in WWII and will be alive and well as long as there are budget fights to be found or until the two service have the same colors and insignias.
 
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Well, I've just read it on the internet, so it must be true!
 
It wasn't so much inter-service rivalry as that Yamamoto wasn't sufficiently willing to go to war with the US or UK. While the inter-service rivalry between the IJA and IJN was severe to the point of pathology, it wasn't why officers and politicians were murdered.
 
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