It's not that FDR wasn't devious - just look at his activities with regard to his politics. FDR's loyalty was to his political party, first, last...
The book was long overdue. The Japanese were just plain lucky that commanders as incompetent as Short and Kimmel were in charge. And their...
Notice that the memo was wrong on two out of three possible areas of attack. FDR,like any President, relies on his military chiefs. Even if he...
The simple fact was that Short had been told by the Navy that an air attack was impossible. Short's error was that he assumed the U.S. Navy knew...
You obviously have little knowledge of carrier operations if you imagine that the US Navy meant to attack an enemy vessel with only torpedo...
Nagumo's claims about the poor quality of the naval air prior to Midway were made after the battle and are generally looked upon as nothing but an...
Dog Green and Charlie Green are believed to have suffered the largest number of casualties, although calling Omaha Beach "Bloody" is certainly an...
The mere phrasing of the question indicates an illogical attitude. About the only difference between the results of the atomic bombs and those...
The torpedo bombers got massacred because they had gotten separated from their fighter escorts and were not part of a combined arms attack with...
Donald Goldstein's mentor, Gordon Prange was the father of Pearl Harbor histories, and still is admired for At Dawn We Slept. No other book has...
I saw that Nimitz quote about the tank farms,, but have also read expert opinion that the tank farm would have been impossible to <br>disable due...
The Sherman tank suffered from a number of issues. It wasn't designed as a cheap weapon, but was designed by three different organizations, no two...
In Western Europe, there are several candidates for worst disaster : Overlord, Montgomery's failure to pursue the defeated Germans thru Belgium...
Of course, it was Monty's fault that the Scheldt estuary situation occurred at all. He had halted to tidy things up after the Germans had...
Actually, Germany had plenty of fuel for the Ardennes offensive - it was an inability to get it to the forewardmost units that was the problem....
There seems to be a lack of knowledge of Hitler's situation in this thread. Also there are exaggerations of Hitler's incompetence<br>with respect...
Japan's industrial capacitywas so inferior to that of the US, the only way she could have avoided losing the war would be if the US quit. After...
It is an incontrovertible fact that Britain (actually Churchill) did not want to invade Western Europe, at least not as soon as the Americans did....
In all the descriptions I've read of the DD tank fiasco, I've never come across any report of a warning being "radioed back" by one of the tank...
Actually, the amount of ammo expended in the beach area of Omaha was not a very large amount. What little naval gunfire there was could be...
