Thank you so much for this. Also, wow I didn't even know this thread had even been revived. Shows how much I visit this website.
But the Hellcat saw much wider use by the US Navy until around early 1945. The only carrier based Corsair squadron to actually see major combat...
A-58 you realize that was much later in the war right?
I swear all this discussion, would this have even have gone more than a page if the OP had used a different term for the end of the Zuikaku.
Wow I didn't even think about the fact Tone and Chikuma weren't with them. Even then if the sources for Myoko and Haguro's floatplanes are...
He's the man that wrote Combined Fleet Decoded right? How does this book hold up?
Carrier Attack Planes (B5N Kates) were used by Zuikaku and Shokaku for reconnaissance on May 8th at Coral Sea, seven in total taken from...
Wasn't the fact that American ships actually came expected. It was the when in and where that caught the Japanese by surprise by the weak...
I find it strange that there are people that don't realize that the "Long Lance" was a very specific model of torpedo that the Japanese used. The...
So recently I finished Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy and the amount of infighting and setbacks that the Allies had to work through is kinda...
This is nice work. Its pretty easy to forget that the "Jug" fought in the Pacific as well as Europe (though not to denigrate European pilots since...
I'm pretty familiar with 303 Squadron and I was expecting someone to mention it considering their exploits. But I was looking for something on...
I know but Mac came in probably sarcastically saying something about Fletcher when the man had been mentioned all of once at the top of the first...
What? No, I'd say Fletcher did about as well as he could have in his circumstances, but there were better carrier Admirals later in the war....
Does anyone have any information on which squadrons in the RAF had the highest kill claims during the Battle of Britain? I can find records on...
Enterprise didn't but her aircraft did. Air Group 10 played a major role in the Air Attacks that sank the Hiei and battered Tanaka's Reinforcement...
And Mr. Leonard's post highlights the fact that you should crosscheck whatever you read in history books if you have the ability to do so. I do...
Genda's Blade and Tillman's Whirlwind is about as in-depth as it will get for that time period, it seems. It really is depressing when you thank...
Aka John Lundstrom's The First Team and Christopher Shores' Bloody Shambles 1944-1945 edition. Are there any books or studies like them for the...
I've always wondered why CYAG Oscar Pederson did not fly during Midway or Coral Sea. I remember Lundstrom in The First Team mentioned him being...
