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     To : MAYER MARGOLIS                       Number : 7100  
   From : BUZZ DIXON                         Refer To : None  
Subject : WWII WAR GAME                          Read : 05/11/88            
   Date : 05/11/88                           Security : None    

Before WWII broke out, the Japanese Naval High Command staged an
elaborate war game, projecting the enormous battle for the Pacific.  The
admirals played the Japanese fleet, the junior officers played the
Americans.  The Japanese side did just perfectly, scoring a major
victory at Pearl harbor and the Phillipines, then driving the American
fleet from the seas until one battle around a small island.  At that
point the Americans slowly but surely turned the tide and drive the
Japanese fleet back to Japan.
  
The junior officers were embarassed to beat the admirals, the admirals
were outraged.  It was suggested that perhaps the game was flawwed,
surely the Americans couldn't defeat the powerful (and at that time,
world's most morden) Japanese fleet.
  
The rules were rewritten and the game was played again.  This time the
American side suitably lost, much face was saved all around, and the
Japanese proceded in the next few years to attack Pearl harbor and the
Phillipines.
  
Oh, by the way, the small island in the war game where the junior
officers turned the battle around for the Americans was called Midway.


     To : BUZZ DIXON                           Number : 7101  
   From : JAN FISHER                         Refer To : 7100  
Subject : WWII WAR GAME                          Read : 05/12/88            
   Date : 05/11/88                           Security : None    

And now you know....


     To : JAN FISHER                           Number : 7102  
   From : JAN FISHER                         Refer To : 7101  
Subject : WWII WAR GAME                          Read : 05/11/88            
   Date : 05/11/88                           Security : None    

the REST of the... story....
 
(Sorry. I couldn't resist.)



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