I think if POW and Repulse had not been sunk together, they would have been sunk separately. History just gave us a SPECTACULAR lesson on...
I don't see any advantage for the Japanese in acquiring Madagascar. Some people look at it from the standpoint of stymieing the British in North...
All this talk about the order to "switch back" to torpedoes...what if the torpedoes were NEVER switched in the first place? The initial plan on...
That Hirohito episode is REALLY WORTH WATCHING!
The Me-262 was already introduced TOO EARLY for its reliable operational use. It was introduced into combat out of DESPERATION, not of sober...
>Imagine a plane coming at you spewing death and destruction traveling at speeds you've never even imagined and the mechanical systems of your AA...
And of course the overhead planes would hardly be needed by the END of the Santa Cruz battle, as every Hornet plane that could be brought aboard...
I always like "what-if" subjects, so I have a hard time criticizing folk for making them. I think the rigging of the model is atrocious, but...
Not only did it never fire a shot in anger, it never launched or recovered a single aircraft!! >I can't imagine the Royal Navy or U.S. Navy would...
>Guess it depends on what you call a hit. < Yeah, we might have to dive on the wreck and see if there are 18"-diameter "wormholes" through the...
re: "old post"----Yeah, I thought I would look deep into the "archives" to see if any subjects caught my interest. I just finished reading "Last...
Elite?? >75.000 tons Yamato-class battleships. But the Japanesse sailors and officers in those ships were an elite in the Japanesse fleet. <...
I thought I recalled one incident of a US sub's torpedo circling around and hitting the mother ship (??)
>With guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees. < One would think that it would be the guns as big as trees, and shells as big as steers!
There is certainly a cadre of folk out there that feel that Germany was WAY AHEAD of everyone in engineering competence, but they certainly had...
Perhaps the biggest "failure" of the radar system is that, post-attack, the radar was duly tracking the Japanese planes back to their carriers,...
A Mediterrranean Stalingrad?? I think despite "rumors" of civilians opposed to British domination, Maltese *HATE* to think they can be taken over...
War itself it a "crime". I think ENDING THE WAR is the ultimate anti-war-crime. The atomics were such a quantum leap in lethality that Japan...
re: "Wooden Decks"-->Also: No American carrier ever had a wooden deck, so far as I know. (Maybe Langley, but does she really count?) They had...
Elevators: At least for the American airmen, the elevators on Japanese carriers were a prime target "aiming point". I mean, if you knock out the...