Exactly. You have to take into account the differing responsibilities inherent to each level of command. Pinning Kimmel and Short and not...
What else would you call your air intercept officer over-committing his resources to false alarms early in the morning, stacking up on the deck...
The failure in Luzon occurred at the tactical level and that on Oahu was at the strategic level. Short should not have been dismissed, IMO....
Fletcher often faced the same criticism. Couldn’t be that the Japanese were better that day... . The general beef seems to be threefold. One, that...
Not sure what the beef with Mac is here. The USAAF blew its first attempt at radar directed intercepts on the 8th. This was due to lack of...
About the only thing I can think off the top that might have pointed that way was the communications chatter made by Kido Butai pilots during...
The survivors of the savage beating at Savo Island would probably have laughed aloud at a suggestion the battleships the Japanese and US high...
Try Combined Fleet Decoded – it might have specific information. US naval intelligence did identify Nagumo’s 1st Air Fleet and its OOB long...
Good catch - in re-checking Lundstrom Pye's recall went out at 0641 Wake time (I thought Hawaii time). Actually 0940 Hawaii time, which was after...
Lundstrom covers this in detail. While it is possible to show from records later in the war that the destroyers had enough fuel, at the time what...
Why would Marshall be relieved of command if King was not?
The only reason to invade Madagascar would be if they were going whole hog; attacking South Africa.
The author’s tendency to find the worst possible explanation for a particular Japanese failing and then champion it. For example, they neglect...
Great book giving scads of operational detail on the Japanese navy. A must have. But at the level of operational analysis the author’s biases...
Fletcher should have been cut a break. If left in carrier command it is my opinion that he’d have done as good a job as either Halsey or...
Fletcher did not have tactical control of TF16 at Midway. One might argue that Nimitz put Hornet in the wrong TF; Enterprise should have operated...
In the meantime, if you have any specific questions I can reference my copy when I get a chance. Lundstrom's account is, like everything he does,...
The US Navy during the era was rabidly political in nature and FJF's reputation during and after the war suffered greatly from his fall from...
. Because he feared the verdict it would bring.
As my post about options outlines, the failing which ensured disaster was poor leadership excercised by Short and Kimmel. The defensive mission...