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None of that would have made any difference. They needed Pearl, the Islands. Put an X through all that. They win. Who was going to stop them?What would the USN had done, had the USS Lexington CV-2 and USS Enterprise CV-6 been sunk/damaged at Pearl Harbor, leaving them with USS Saratoga CV-3, USS Ranger CV-4, USS Yorktown CV-5, USS Wasp CV-7 and USS Hornet CV-8?
Mind you, the other carriers would still meet the same destiny, when they did...(if the still went through with the Battle of Coral Sea and Midway)
Would they still have done Coral Sea and Midway battles?
Would they have played it safe, wait for more carriers to be built?
Would the RN have entered the Pacific war sooner?
Lol. But yeah, that was pretty much the size of it.The Carriers at Pearl! One hear this so often. In reality There were only two carriers in the Pacific at the time, Lexington and Enterprise. Saratoga was between Bremerton and San Diego, Yorktown and Wasp were in the Atlantic, along with the Ranger, and Hornet was off Bermuda working up.
Biggest changes: CVN 65 gets a different name, and Star Trek has the Starship Constellation.
Its not only production, but quality. And that compounded the woes of the Japanese.