re: Was Strawberry 9 the most important plane in American history?

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Navy is crushed and we aren't in the USA

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Maybe a setback that would have prolonged the war, but we were never going to lose the war in the Pacific, from the moment it started. We built hundreds of aircraft carriers and other surface ships in 3-4 years, and Japan lacked the capacity industrially or militarily to project power any further than it already was. The Japanese would never have been able to keep up, even if we lost our other two carriers at Midway.