Talk:Kasumi/@comment-4720919-20160120143246/@comment-1914684-20160120190455

Anyway, regardless if Rei-go was a success or not is irrelevant, but it does a make a nice story. The commander behind Rei-go was a colourful and quite capable person if you read a bit about his background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatomi_Kimura

http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E6%9C%A8%E6%9D%91%E6%98%8C%E7%A6%8F

(You got to learn a bit of history about Alaska and the history of map 3-2 as well ;-))

Otherwise, Japan (and all of Axis) had already lost the war at the end of 1944. Yet Hitler, Emperor of Japan, and even Mussolini thought at that time the war can still be won.