I always knew the IJN and IJA wasnt exactly friendly but I never knew the IJA only used their own transports for operations. The level of distrust and lack of cooperation was unbelievable between the two services. I can only imagine the USMC , USA,and USN distrusting each other so much they refused to sail with each other.
Also their arrogance was off the charts. I suppose they deserved to feel a certain amount after those months of basically doing what they wanted when they wanted. Hitting Pearl, grabbing Singapore, sinking the RNs best BBs, raging thru the Phillipines and Burma, but still they were way to contemptuous of their enemy. Like Hitler with Russia.
The entire Midway scheme was fundamentally flawed from the very beginning. Say they only grabbed Midway? well now what? They had Hawaii to deal with while having a very long supply/communication line to keep open. And since Hawaii produced squat for food even if they had been able to grab that, which is very doubtful, then once again they had a hugely extended supply line and not the shipping or convoying assets to keep it going.
Those USN flat tops were the ONLY target worth going after but very few saw it and none in the army. Then, and I knew this but not the extent, they bled off so many resources to go after the Aleutians. No wonder the falsehood came out that the Aleutians was a feint because there was nothing to be gained by attacking them. These two operations used more fuel then an entire year of IJN operations prior.
