[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @mercoglianos Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️ Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️ posts on X about pearl harbor, japan, sea, philippines the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2801797985/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +171% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +427% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::2801797985/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +6.80% - X Months XXX -XXXX% - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2801797985/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.41% - X Month XXXXXX +0.66% - X Months XXXXXX +4.60% - X Year XXXXXX +21% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2801797985/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #1003 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [pearl harbor](/topic/pearl-harbor) #1, [japan](/topic/japan) #43, [sea](/topic/sea) #26, [philippines](/topic/philippines) #1828, [the british](/topic/the-british) #35, [marshall](/topic/marshall) 5.88%, [marshall islands](/topic/marshall-islands) 5.88%, [history](/topic/history) 4.41%, [china](/topic/china) #3844, [what is](/topic/what-is) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@dgreen7230](/creator/undefined) [@benjaminturon](/creator/undefined) [@johannbg](/creator/undefined) [@sandad002](/creator/undefined) [@jagswim1](/creator/undefined) [@justinf75983016](/creator/undefined) [@robertwaldeck](/creator/undefined) [@william05920949](/creator/undefined) [@sternabr6](/creator/undefined) [@gv7693071132234](/creator/undefined) [@bartgonnissen](/creator/undefined) [@secnav](/creator/undefined) [@usnavy](/creator/undefined) [@mscsealift](/creator/undefined) [@johnkonrad](/creator/undefined) [@thenextjebbush](/creator/undefined) [@hadadoxin](/creator/undefined) [@herewar66545077](/creator/undefined) [@courtneyrigo](/creator/undefined) [@airwatersnow](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "@SanDad002 @dgreen7230 @JustInF75983016 Please tell us all what is a false fact or source I have studied Pearl Harbor since grad school so I am really interested in what sources you have found" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998207021288763885) 2025-12-09T01:44Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "Australia's Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina 'makes contact with ocean floor' near remote Heard Island" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1978082497847013554) 2025-10-14T12:56Z 63.8K followers, 13.7K engagements "Today's World Maritime History class @campbelledu pitted half the class (the British Grand & Battlecruiser Fleets) against the German (High Seas Fleet and Scouting Group). Interesting decisions made by the students assuming the roles of Hipper Scheer Jellicoe and Beatty" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1991193509357895854) 2025-11-19T17:15Z 63.8K followers, 3209 engagements "Flag Registry Strains the Cook Islands' Relations With New Zealand #maritime #maritime-news" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1993680598439715320) 2025-11-26T13:57Z 63.8K followers, 1558 engagements "US Navy axes frigate program in another blow to efforts to keep up with Chinas fleet" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1993684795352596780) 2025-11-26T14:14Z 63.8K followers, 4300 engagements "The crew from Gambia-flagged tanker MT Kairos make preparations to abandon ship following Ukranian sea drone attack in the southwestern Black Sea on November XX 2025" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1995167679523455058) 2025-11-30T16:26Z 63.8K followers, 228K engagements "The Panama-registered 50k ton XXX meter tanker Mersin has flooded its engine compartment in the harbor of Dakar she is in approximately 28M of water and down by the stern with no power. The ship sailed from Taman Russia on Aug XX. Arrived in Togo on Sep XX and has been off Dakar since Sep XX (over X months). She is showing as laden and owned by a Turkish company. She does not appear to meet the definitions of a 'Shadow Fleet' vessel. Nevertheless she is dark and sinking by the stern" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1995213900145365162) 2025-11-30T19:30Z 63.8K followers, 4187 engagements "Kazakhstan Tells Ukraine To Stop Attacking Terminal After Oil Exports Halted" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1995231309091008672) 2025-11-30T20:39Z 63.8K followers, 5289 engagements "Packed house at WorkBoat to hear a discussion on Revitalizing U.S. Icebreakers Power for the Arctic Frontier" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1996299386511368384) 2025-12-03T19:23Z 63.8K followers, 4483 engagements "So the @USNavy is going to take the design of a foreign ship and build it on the United States. Anyone forsee any issues with this Also I will bet this goes to Fincantieri" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1996957670595518521) 2025-12-05T14:59Z 63.8K followers, 21.7K engagements "@MatthewMcCrac18 This is why you don't register your ships with FoC. There issue is that they cannot get registration through the standard open registries like Liberia Panama or Marshall Islands" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997468275039760813) 2025-12-07T00:48Z 63.8K followers, XXX engagements "@Robertwaldeck @TheNextJebBush The US war gamed twice raids on Pearl Harbor but they were by single carriers. The Japanese it was expected could not mount such a raid unless it came from the Marshall Islands. The US had air patrols to the south and had Enterprise and Lexington out in that area" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997796100607230035) 2025-12-07T22:31Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "Japan talked about this but did not see any scenario where they could go and grab Sumatra Java and Borneo and not trigger a reaction from the British and the Americans. In that scenario they would be exposed by the Eastern Fleet in Singapore and US aircraft and subs in the Philippines. I agree that if the Japanese did not attack the US and just grabbed Dutch territory I am not sure that the US would declare war. But read the Japanese records and they did not believe that the US and British would sit on the sideline" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997801883885293580) 2025-12-07T22:54Z 63.8K followers, XXX engagements "There is zero reason that the US should have thought that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor before a declaration of war with X carriers - especially as the last X of them were just commissioned. Read Fuqua's article in JMH on Japanese refueling. The war warning sent out on Nov XX did what it was intended. Short initiated an alert against what he believed to be his primary threat - sabotage. Kimmel dispatched Halsey and Brown out to deliver marine squadrons to Midway and Wake. In the meantime he was forwarding convoys to the Philippines. Louisville was on the way back from the Philippines" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997854162378207324) 2025-12-08T02:22Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "American intelligence had the Japanese carriers in Hawaii and not the Marshall Islands. Lexington and Enterprise were scouting toward the west of Pearl and they had PBYs forward based at Midway and Johnson Is. The US war planned attacks from the Marshall Is but that was after the start of a war. Even with the Japanese attack on Port Arthur the US did not foresee an attack without a declaration of war or that the war would start to the east of the date line" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997854775967199543) 2025-12-08T02:24Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "Well instead of Google I went and received a Ph.D. in Military and Naval History and my M.A. in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology. Of course the US expected Japan to take action. That is why they were reinforcing the Philippines with troops aircraft and submarines. The U.S. envisioned the war starting in the Philippines or across the Pacific and not in Hawaii. Maybe you should try that Google thing" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997866764986667386) 2025-12-08T03:12Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "@jagswim1 What is your source for the suppose British warning The British provided a warning of troopships moving south of Formosa toward Malaya. The Japanese practices in the Kurile Islands which were off limits to the US so it is not liked that American intelligence knew" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997871607277072640) 2025-12-08T03:31Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "@hadadoxin @William05920949 They wanted XXX B17s for the search which was more than in the US. Plus the report assumes a state of war to exist" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998018358969548960) 2025-12-08T13:14Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "@William05920949 @hadadoxin The problem was divided command responsibilities. There were air searches but they were to the south for subs. CAP is not done during peace and the War Warning was interpreted to be a warning about action in the Philippines or central Pacific and not Oahu" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998037461965135981) 2025-12-08T14:30Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "@dgreen7230 @SanDad002 @JustInF75983016 I would add Rana Mitter's Forgotten Ally" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998222720283062290) 2025-12-09T02:46Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "The Japanese saw the deployment of Force Z along with the forward deployment of the US Pacific Fleet and the reinforcement of the Philippines (land air and submarines) as a move to thwart any move into the East Indies. Add to this the reopening of the Burma Road the extension of Lend-Lease to China the American Volunteer Group freezing of Japanese assets and the economic embargo and the Japanese viewed all these moves in a larger context" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998229517014348086) 2025-12-09T03:13Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "1/Investigations Show Failures Behind Carrier Harry S. Truman Collision Loss of X Super Hornets Working on a video breakdown of the collision between USS Harry S Truman vs Besiktas-M off the Suez Canal on Feb XX 2025" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1996955889903734954) 2025-12-05T14:52Z 63.8K followers, 20.5K engagements "@Civixplorer Europe is substantially further North than most people believe" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997496737900958206) 2025-12-07T02:41Z 63.8K followers, 228.6K engagements "Five things most people don't know about the Attack on Pearl Harbor. 1The US did not consider Pearl Harbor to be a target as they were unaware that Japan had developed the ability to refuel their ships at sea. At a distance of 4000 nautical miles this was about 1500 miles further than the estimated range of Japanese ships" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997686634272239807) 2025-12-07T15:16Z 63.8K followers, 1.4M engagements "2The US forward deployment was part of a combined plan set forth with the British to place two fleets on Japan's flanks. The US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor along with the British Eastern Fleet at Singapore was to deter any Japanese action into SE Asia. However the Japanese attacked before the full Eastern Fleet could be assembled with only Force Z in place" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997687464928903377) 2025-12-07T15:19Z 63.8K followers, 111.7K engagements "@Herewar66545077 @grok Midway would have still happened. What would not have happened was some of the raids but the US was sending in huge convoys of tankers to offload in the months after Pearl Harbor" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997726044091257340) 2025-12-07T17:52Z 63.8K followers, 1418 engagements "Those fleet problems were raids by individual carriers and that assumed if the Japanese were going to strike they would approach from the Marshall Islands. No one foresaw a massed attack by six carriers and striking from the North. There was a crash program to fortify Pearl Harbor Midway Wake Guam and the Philippines. See Glen Williford's Racing the Sunrise for the details" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997752136172769306) 2025-12-07T19:36Z 63.8K followers, 5405 engagements "This is a common trope about Pearl Harbor - the US attacked it so therefore the US should have known. The 1932 scenario (which was Joint Exercise 4) was a US attack on a captured Hawaii from the West Coast. The 1938 had Japan attack the US in Hawaii after a series of battles that had substantially reduced the US fleet. The Japanese were capturing bases in Lahaina and French Frigate Shoals. The key that in all these scenarios war had been declared and the enemy was based much closer to Hawaii and did not have to sail 4000 miles from Japan" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997823753548419256) 2025-12-08T00:21Z 63.8K followers, 11.4K engagements "@SternabR6 According to H.P. Wilmott's Pearl Harbor: Out of XXX planes: XX lost XXX damaged Pretty sure that is 1/3" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998222716529430896) 2025-12-09T02:46Z 63.8K followers, XXX engagements "Davie Defense Closes Gulf Copper Acquisition Joining U.S. Arctic Shipbuilding Ranks" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1996291631398486166) 2025-12-03T18:53Z 63.8K followers, 10.2K engagements "The grounding of tanker Kairos off the coast of Bulgaria highlights the danger of the Russia shadow fleet. 1No registry or insurance 2Ship now becomes the problem of Bulgaria 3Impending environmental disaster as the ship breaks up 4Increase in War Risk across the Black Sea" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997332265047572809) 2025-12-06T15:48Z 63.8K followers, 40.5K engagements "3When the Japanese attacked the Pacific Fleet a portion of the Atlantic Fleet was equally vulnerable and exposed. Battleships Idaho & Mississippi and heavy cruisers Tuscaloosa & Wichita were at anchorHvalfjordur Iceland; with others in Newfoundland and Bermuda. This forward deployment allowed Britain to detach Force Z and the R-class battleships to form the Eastern Fleet. Fortunately Japan did not coordinate with Germany for a strike against these ships" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997689255934468255) 2025-12-07T15:26Z 63.8K followers, 97.1K engagements "5The infamous 3rd Wave. Japan commenced launching at 0610 hours. Fuchdia broadcast 'Tora Tora Tora' at 0749. By 1000 the last Japanese aircraft depart. The roughly X hour flight back to the Japanese carriers put them all back on deck by 1200. The Japanese lose XX aircraft with XX damaged out of XXX. That is approximately 1/3 of their aircraft. They would need to prepare the 3rd Wave to strike the fuel tanks and navy yard; but also a 4th Wave to prepare to hit any US naval forces at sea - particularly the X US carriers that were missing. A 3rd Wave would also encounter prepared defenses both" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997695236546437283) 2025-12-07T15:50Z 63.8K followers, 74.4K engagements "Pearl Harbor: Five Things Most People Don't Know About the Attack on December X 1941 Video:" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997750984148152809) 2025-12-07T19:32Z 63.8K followers, 16.8K engagements "@CourtneyRigo The bigger issues was the loss of training and logistic shortages. There would not be enough fuel; morale would decline with crews away from their families; lack of maintenance and overhaul capability; and the wear and tear on the ships" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1997856241868214633) 2025-12-08T02:30Z 63.8K followers, 4698 engagements "@GV7693071132234 The fleet problems of 1933 and 1938 all assumed the US to be in a state of war and in the first had the Japanese controlling Pearl Harbor" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998071509059879144) 2025-12-08T16:45Z 63.8K followers, 1252 engagements "Still just a trickle of US soyabeans to China despite trade deal US-China trade deal called for China to purchase 12m tonnes of US soyabeans by year-end; it has purchased less than a quarter of that with just three weeks to go US soyabean exports usually peak in October-November; they were down XX% year on year during these two months Year to date US crop exports are still up versus 2024 as soaring corn volumes have offset loss of soyabean cargoes" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998132595910144092) 2025-12-08T20:48Z 63.8K followers, 8110 engagements "No. 4.5M barrels of oil in the farm. The XX oilers available to the Pacific Fleet could move 750k bbls. Consumption for the first nine days of operations was 750k bbls - per Admiral Calhoun in the Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings in 1946. Admiral King allocated XX commercial tankers in January to provide the necessary transport of oil to the Pacific Fleet. Any tank would have a hard time destroying all the tanks in a 3rd wave due to AAA smoke from the fires and fighter defense. Even if Japan managed to destroy half of the available fuel; the US would have curtailed its early raids but it was" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998225607608406105) 2025-12-09T02:58Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements "China Signs the Largest Commercial Ship Contract in its History XX Ships for $XXX Billion (USD) Video:" [X Link](https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/1998466691181826300) 2025-12-09T18:56Z 63.8K followers, 5190 engagements
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@mercoglianos Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️ posts on X about pearl harbor, japan, sea, philippines the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social category influence countries #1003 technology brands XXXX% finance XXXX% stocks XXXX% currencies XXXX%
Social topic influence pearl harbor #1, japan #43, sea #26, philippines #1828, the british #35, marshall 5.88%, marshall islands 5.88%, history 4.41%, china #3844, what is XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @dgreen7230 @benjaminturon @johannbg @sandad002 @jagswim1 @justinf75983016 @robertwaldeck @william05920949 @sternabr6 @gv7693071132234 @bartgonnissen @secnav @usnavy @mscsealift @johnkonrad @thenextjebbush @hadadoxin @herewar66545077 @courtneyrigo @airwatersnow
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"@SanDad002 @dgreen7230 @JustInF75983016 Please tell us all what is a false fact or source I have studied Pearl Harbor since grad school so I am really interested in what sources you have found"
X Link 2025-12-09T01:44Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"Australia's Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina 'makes contact with ocean floor' near remote Heard Island"
X Link 2025-10-14T12:56Z 63.8K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Today's World Maritime History class @campbelledu pitted half the class (the British Grand & Battlecruiser Fleets) against the German (High Seas Fleet and Scouting Group). Interesting decisions made by the students assuming the roles of Hipper Scheer Jellicoe and Beatty"
X Link 2025-11-19T17:15Z 63.8K followers, 3209 engagements
"Flag Registry Strains the Cook Islands' Relations With New Zealand #maritime #maritime-news"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:57Z 63.8K followers, 1558 engagements
"US Navy axes frigate program in another blow to efforts to keep up with Chinas fleet"
X Link 2025-11-26T14:14Z 63.8K followers, 4300 engagements
"The crew from Gambia-flagged tanker MT Kairos make preparations to abandon ship following Ukranian sea drone attack in the southwestern Black Sea on November XX 2025"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:26Z 63.8K followers, 228K engagements
"The Panama-registered 50k ton XXX meter tanker Mersin has flooded its engine compartment in the harbor of Dakar she is in approximately 28M of water and down by the stern with no power. The ship sailed from Taman Russia on Aug XX. Arrived in Togo on Sep XX and has been off Dakar since Sep XX (over X months). She is showing as laden and owned by a Turkish company. She does not appear to meet the definitions of a 'Shadow Fleet' vessel. Nevertheless she is dark and sinking by the stern"
X Link 2025-11-30T19:30Z 63.8K followers, 4187 engagements
"Kazakhstan Tells Ukraine To Stop Attacking Terminal After Oil Exports Halted"
X Link 2025-11-30T20:39Z 63.8K followers, 5289 engagements
"Packed house at WorkBoat to hear a discussion on Revitalizing U.S. Icebreakers Power for the Arctic Frontier"
X Link 2025-12-03T19:23Z 63.8K followers, 4483 engagements
"So the @USNavy is going to take the design of a foreign ship and build it on the United States. Anyone forsee any issues with this Also I will bet this goes to Fincantieri"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:59Z 63.8K followers, 21.7K engagements
"@MatthewMcCrac18 This is why you don't register your ships with FoC. There issue is that they cannot get registration through the standard open registries like Liberia Panama or Marshall Islands"
X Link 2025-12-07T00:48Z 63.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@Robertwaldeck @TheNextJebBush The US war gamed twice raids on Pearl Harbor but they were by single carriers. The Japanese it was expected could not mount such a raid unless it came from the Marshall Islands. The US had air patrols to the south and had Enterprise and Lexington out in that area"
X Link 2025-12-07T22:31Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"Japan talked about this but did not see any scenario where they could go and grab Sumatra Java and Borneo and not trigger a reaction from the British and the Americans. In that scenario they would be exposed by the Eastern Fleet in Singapore and US aircraft and subs in the Philippines. I agree that if the Japanese did not attack the US and just grabbed Dutch territory I am not sure that the US would declare war. But read the Japanese records and they did not believe that the US and British would sit on the sideline"
X Link 2025-12-07T22:54Z 63.8K followers, XXX engagements
"There is zero reason that the US should have thought that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor before a declaration of war with X carriers - especially as the last X of them were just commissioned. Read Fuqua's article in JMH on Japanese refueling. The war warning sent out on Nov XX did what it was intended. Short initiated an alert against what he believed to be his primary threat - sabotage. Kimmel dispatched Halsey and Brown out to deliver marine squadrons to Midway and Wake. In the meantime he was forwarding convoys to the Philippines. Louisville was on the way back from the Philippines"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:22Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"American intelligence had the Japanese carriers in Hawaii and not the Marshall Islands. Lexington and Enterprise were scouting toward the west of Pearl and they had PBYs forward based at Midway and Johnson Is. The US war planned attacks from the Marshall Is but that was after the start of a war. Even with the Japanese attack on Port Arthur the US did not foresee an attack without a declaration of war or that the war would start to the east of the date line"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:24Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"Well instead of Google I went and received a Ph.D. in Military and Naval History and my M.A. in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology. Of course the US expected Japan to take action. That is why they were reinforcing the Philippines with troops aircraft and submarines. The U.S. envisioned the war starting in the Philippines or across the Pacific and not in Hawaii. Maybe you should try that Google thing"
X Link 2025-12-08T03:12Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"@jagswim1 What is your source for the suppose British warning The British provided a warning of troopships moving south of Formosa toward Malaya. The Japanese practices in the Kurile Islands which were off limits to the US so it is not liked that American intelligence knew"
X Link 2025-12-08T03:31Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"@hadadoxin @William05920949 They wanted XXX B17s for the search which was more than in the US. Plus the report assumes a state of war to exist"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:14Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"@William05920949 @hadadoxin The problem was divided command responsibilities. There were air searches but they were to the south for subs. CAP is not done during peace and the War Warning was interpreted to be a warning about action in the Philippines or central Pacific and not Oahu"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:30Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"@dgreen7230 @SanDad002 @JustInF75983016 I would add Rana Mitter's Forgotten Ally"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:46Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"The Japanese saw the deployment of Force Z along with the forward deployment of the US Pacific Fleet and the reinforcement of the Philippines (land air and submarines) as a move to thwart any move into the East Indies. Add to this the reopening of the Burma Road the extension of Lend-Lease to China the American Volunteer Group freezing of Japanese assets and the economic embargo and the Japanese viewed all these moves in a larger context"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:13Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"1/Investigations Show Failures Behind Carrier Harry S. Truman Collision Loss of X Super Hornets Working on a video breakdown of the collision between USS Harry S Truman vs Besiktas-M off the Suez Canal on Feb XX 2025"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:52Z 63.8K followers, 20.5K engagements
"@Civixplorer Europe is substantially further North than most people believe"
X Link 2025-12-07T02:41Z 63.8K followers, 228.6K engagements
"Five things most people don't know about the Attack on Pearl Harbor. 1The US did not consider Pearl Harbor to be a target as they were unaware that Japan had developed the ability to refuel their ships at sea. At a distance of 4000 nautical miles this was about 1500 miles further than the estimated range of Japanese ships"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:16Z 63.8K followers, 1.4M engagements
"2The US forward deployment was part of a combined plan set forth with the British to place two fleets on Japan's flanks. The US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor along with the British Eastern Fleet at Singapore was to deter any Japanese action into SE Asia. However the Japanese attacked before the full Eastern Fleet could be assembled with only Force Z in place"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:19Z 63.8K followers, 111.7K engagements
"@Herewar66545077 @grok Midway would have still happened. What would not have happened was some of the raids but the US was sending in huge convoys of tankers to offload in the months after Pearl Harbor"
X Link 2025-12-07T17:52Z 63.8K followers, 1418 engagements
"Those fleet problems were raids by individual carriers and that assumed if the Japanese were going to strike they would approach from the Marshall Islands. No one foresaw a massed attack by six carriers and striking from the North. There was a crash program to fortify Pearl Harbor Midway Wake Guam and the Philippines. See Glen Williford's Racing the Sunrise for the details"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:36Z 63.8K followers, 5405 engagements
"This is a common trope about Pearl Harbor - the US attacked it so therefore the US should have known. The 1932 scenario (which was Joint Exercise 4) was a US attack on a captured Hawaii from the West Coast. The 1938 had Japan attack the US in Hawaii after a series of battles that had substantially reduced the US fleet. The Japanese were capturing bases in Lahaina and French Frigate Shoals. The key that in all these scenarios war had been declared and the enemy was based much closer to Hawaii and did not have to sail 4000 miles from Japan"
X Link 2025-12-08T00:21Z 63.8K followers, 11.4K engagements
"@SternabR6 According to H.P. Wilmott's Pearl Harbor: Out of XXX planes: XX lost XXX damaged Pretty sure that is 1/3"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:46Z 63.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Davie Defense Closes Gulf Copper Acquisition Joining U.S. Arctic Shipbuilding Ranks"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:53Z 63.8K followers, 10.2K engagements
"The grounding of tanker Kairos off the coast of Bulgaria highlights the danger of the Russia shadow fleet. 1No registry or insurance 2Ship now becomes the problem of Bulgaria 3Impending environmental disaster as the ship breaks up 4Increase in War Risk across the Black Sea"
X Link 2025-12-06T15:48Z 63.8K followers, 40.5K engagements
"3When the Japanese attacked the Pacific Fleet a portion of the Atlantic Fleet was equally vulnerable and exposed. Battleships Idaho & Mississippi and heavy cruisers Tuscaloosa & Wichita were at anchorHvalfjordur Iceland; with others in Newfoundland and Bermuda. This forward deployment allowed Britain to detach Force Z and the R-class battleships to form the Eastern Fleet. Fortunately Japan did not coordinate with Germany for a strike against these ships"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:26Z 63.8K followers, 97.1K engagements
"5The infamous 3rd Wave. Japan commenced launching at 0610 hours. Fuchdia broadcast 'Tora Tora Tora' at 0749. By 1000 the last Japanese aircraft depart. The roughly X hour flight back to the Japanese carriers put them all back on deck by 1200. The Japanese lose XX aircraft with XX damaged out of XXX. That is approximately 1/3 of their aircraft. They would need to prepare the 3rd Wave to strike the fuel tanks and navy yard; but also a 4th Wave to prepare to hit any US naval forces at sea - particularly the X US carriers that were missing. A 3rd Wave would also encounter prepared defenses both"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:50Z 63.8K followers, 74.4K engagements
"Pearl Harbor: Five Things Most People Don't Know About the Attack on December X 1941 Video:"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:32Z 63.8K followers, 16.8K engagements
"@CourtneyRigo The bigger issues was the loss of training and logistic shortages. There would not be enough fuel; morale would decline with crews away from their families; lack of maintenance and overhaul capability; and the wear and tear on the ships"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:30Z 63.8K followers, 4698 engagements
"@GV7693071132234 The fleet problems of 1933 and 1938 all assumed the US to be in a state of war and in the first had the Japanese controlling Pearl Harbor"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:45Z 63.8K followers, 1252 engagements
"Still just a trickle of US soyabeans to China despite trade deal US-China trade deal called for China to purchase 12m tonnes of US soyabeans by year-end; it has purchased less than a quarter of that with just three weeks to go US soyabean exports usually peak in October-November; they were down XX% year on year during these two months Year to date US crop exports are still up versus 2024 as soaring corn volumes have offset loss of soyabean cargoes"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:48Z 63.8K followers, 8110 engagements
"No. 4.5M barrels of oil in the farm. The XX oilers available to the Pacific Fleet could move 750k bbls. Consumption for the first nine days of operations was 750k bbls - per Admiral Calhoun in the Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings in 1946. Admiral King allocated XX commercial tankers in January to provide the necessary transport of oil to the Pacific Fleet. Any tank would have a hard time destroying all the tanks in a 3rd wave due to AAA smoke from the fires and fighter defense. Even if Japan managed to destroy half of the available fuel; the US would have curtailed its early raids but it was"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:58Z 63.8K followers, XX engagements
"China Signs the Largest Commercial Ship Contract in its History XX Ships for $XXX Billion (USD) Video:"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:56Z 63.8K followers, 5190 engagements