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| | Pearl Harbor Revisited: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence, 1924-1941 |
 | | The Combined Fleet, which consisted of five mobile fleets (1st, 2nd, 6th, 1st Air Fleet, 11th Air Fleet) and three localized fleets (3rd, 4th, and 5th), was destined to carry the burden of the southern strategy as well as to conduct the strike on Pearl Harbor. |
 | | Force 2, the South Seas Force (4th Fleet), extensively reinforced with land-based air units from Japan and submarines from the 6th Fleet, under Vice Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue (CINC4), was to seize Rabaul, Wake, Guam, and Makin using a reinforced infantry regiment of 5,000 men (the South Seas Detachment). |
 | | Furthermore, the extraordinary measures taken by the Combined Fleet to insure adequate fuel supplies for the Strike Force demonstrated that the naval objective was at a distant point far removed from shore-based fuel and even beyond the normal Japanese resupply capability. |
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