The Great Pacific War

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The Great Pacific War was a 1925 novel by Hector C. Bywater which discussed a hypothetical future war between Japan and the United States. The novel accurately predicts a number of details about the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Bywater was a naval correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph.

In The Great Pacific War, the war begins with a Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Formosa and Korea. Japan then stages a surprise attack which results in the nearly complete destruction of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The novel features numerous other accurate predictions, such as

• a large role in the conflict for aircraft carrier-based aircraft
• suicidal tactics by Japanese aviators
• an island hopping strategy as the U.S. retakes the Pacific

Bywater died in August of 1940, before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

1925 report predicted Japanese Pearl Harbor Attack