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Escuadrilla Azul said:
Little time after that question just came across this vid with Jon Parshall and his point is that no oil wasn't really posible. Interesting:


View: https://www.youtube.com/live/GcIIMGnqAg8?si=Y4NN58Zcx5wj5D7x
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Thanks for your information, Escuadrilla Azul.
Frankly, I was not interested in such an unrealistic argument for the operation by historians as why they did not attack the fuel tanks when the operation was done under the limited time. Jon Parshall gets to the point IMO if I may quot from another source -

1.) Fuchida never made a mental earmark to target the tank-farms.

Jon Parshall believes he knows what Fuchida did or didn't think about as he circled Pearl Harbor and looked down at massive fuel storage tanks and finds it unbelievable that Fuchida thought they'd make opportune targets. Parshall believes Fuchida added this only in 1963 in order to make himself appear wiser than he actually was.

What would be truly unbelievable would be if the Imperial Japanese Navy's top pilot didn't have these thoughts and ideas. Of course Fuchida knew the list of target priorities carefully outlined in meetings in Yokosuka and Kyushu,

"The targeting list for Pearl Harbor was very clearly established in Annex 3 of Operation Order No. 1, issued on 1 November 1941 (as cited in H.P. Willmott's Pearl Harbor, p. 64). Targeting priorities were as follows:

1) Airfields
2) Aircraft carriers
3) Battleships
4) Cruisers and other warships
5) Merchant shipping
6) Port facilities
7) Land installations

These targeting priorities are important to our discussion of this incident."

Source: http://www.combinedfleet.com/BennettRebuttal.htm

These targets in order would have been enough to do within the limited time and chances.
Missing the aircraft carriers was thought as the fatal mistake by Japanese side through the Pacific War.
 
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