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There was no doubt it was hard!!! It could have been much worse. The Japanese had overwhelming naval power in the area and refused to use it. They had 6 battleships in the area (4 Kongo Class and 2 Yamato Class) and 4 carriers, yet for the longest refused to commit them to the bombardment of Henderson field. When they finally did late in the game, the Americans had two modern battleships to face off the Japanese. Even when the Japanese finally committed battleships for bombardment, they only committed two Kongo Class BB's instead of the whole fleet of BB's.
If when the American forces first landed the Japanese would have initiated daily battleship bombardment of Henderson field, The Japanese would have kept planes off Henderson field and starved the Americans out. As it was, it worked out the other way around. The American planes on Henderson field stopped almost all resupply efforts of the Japanese. The Japanese were so concerned with the "Mother of all Battles" with the U.S. fleet that they didn't take care of business. They were afraid to let the BB's and carriers take part in attacks on Henderson field that would have destroyed any defensive capability the U.S. forces had.
Another problem was Japanese pride. They had such a long string of victories against the Chinese, British and Americans, that they couldn't conceive the need for equal firepower much less superior firepower. Due to upper echelon pride and arrogance, they refused to look at the actual situation until it was too late to do anything about it. By the time leaders with good sense were in a position to do anything about it, it was too late…… Don't ever let yourself get arrogant and prideful, it will give you a serious butt kicking at the worst possible time!!!!
:S :ph34r
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