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*** They had also hoped to reduce the American presence in the Pacific by feigning an invasion in Alaska. Unfortunately the U.S. had already cracked the Japanese secret codes and knew that the invasion of Alaska was a feint, allowing them to focus their entire strength on the Pacific.
*** Additionally, many of the ships sunk during the attack were later pulled from the bottom of the ocean and repaired. Only a few were deemed irrevocably lost.
* [[Gulf War|Operation Desert Storm]] had many instances of this as most of the Iraqi army surrendered to the Allied forces—despite predictions that they'd fight to the death, and that "body bags would be coming back full of American casualties". As comedian [[Bill Hicks]] mused, Iraq's "elite Republican Guard" were discussed in hushed tones, but shortly became just "the Republican Guard", until one was left wondering if there were any Iraqi guards ''at all''. Ironically, this mass surrender is [[Springtime for Hitler|believed to have slowed the coalition forces more than actually fighting would have]].
** There was also at least one instance of an Iraqi unit so desperate to surrender and avoid getting destroyed in battle, that they tried to surrender to an Italian film crew. Other units [https://web.archive.org/web/20061205022732/http://history.navy.mil/wars/dstorm/ds5.htm surrendered to a UAV] (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).
*** The UAV wasn't an act of simply being desperate to surrender; in Gulf 1 the UAVs in use were Navy, used for shore bombardment spotting for the ''Iowa''-class battleships. The Iraqis correctly deduced that the presence of the UAV meant they were shortly to suffer 16" bombardment. With no defense against the battleship guns, they took the smart way out.
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