TTTA - Remember the Nagato, Pearl Harbor and December 7, 1941

Today is December 7, 2014, the 73rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the day Japan opened war on the US.  Perhaps, some interesting connections to Tunnel Thru the Air:

• In TTTA Japan was first to declare war on the US (April 1930, pg 277).  When the US, fearing an attack on the west coast by Japan, rushed battleships to the Pacific. Japan immediately attacked the ships by air and destroyed all but a few of the ships by bombardment from its high flying planes.  Similarly, in WWII Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor forced the US out of its then declared neutrality in WWII.  Of course, both in the fiction and in the actual battle, the key was mass bombardment from the air on effectively defenseless battleships.

• In TTTA, Japan's forces were commanded by General Nagato.  My reading of Wilkipedia finds the order to attack Pearl Harbor that was given by Admiral Isoroku Yamamato from his then flagship and battleship Nagato.  From Wikipedia:

• And the battleship Nagato has enduring significance in post WWII nuclear armament.  The Nagato was used as a target in 'Operation Crossroads' at the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests in 1946.

Interesting coincidence?  Perhaps there are others but I haven't pursued this line for many months and I'm far be it a student of WWII.

Jim