ADMIRAL NIMITZ ONCE SAID THE JAPANESE BLEW IT IN THEIR ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR

‘God was surely taking care of America’

Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt appointed Admiral Chester Nimitz as Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Upon inspecting the destruction at Pearl Harbor, Nimitz said "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make surely having me think that God was taking care of America.”

Here are the mistakes Nimitz said the Japanese made:

Mistake # 1: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and sunk -- we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.

Mistake # 2: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.

Mistake # 3: Every drop of fuel available in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make. God was surely taking care of America.