I figured 'mainly' left room for the exceptions, such as the Exeter, the Hermes, the Victorious(?) brought in to fill the gap while the Enterprise...
Yeah, Hiei took heavy damage from 5, 6, and 8 inch guns at the first Battle of Guadalcanal, and ended up being finished off by aircraft. So, if...
Dive bombers were Vals, level and torpedo bombers were Kates. Level bombers had modified AP battleship shells, if I remember right, and the...
Well, the Pacific was mainly an American/Australian/Japanese operation after the first couple of months, and remained that way mostly till 1945,...
You know, a guy can get lost for hours in these Kai-Petri threads, following the links wherever they lead... I love them when I have time to...
Well, trust is a two-way street. While the UK is not showing on our 'not-so-trusted allies' list, there are others that always stood with us in...
This was where Ike excelled. He learned a lot about coalition warfare in Torch, and applied those lessons later for Overlord. No, Ike wasn't one...
Yep, good stuff when Kai-Petri posts. For a junkie like me, it's great!
Well, when you've studied the battles and the strategies for years, threads like this, and the 'economics' pages at places like combinedfleet.com...
Tiger, love that 88 at range. Santa Cruz or Eastern Solomons?
Not on its own, but if you need a look at what submarines could do to shipping lanes if not effectively countered, just look to the Pacific, to...
If you want to change the underlying facts of the BoB, you go back to 1936, and bring Walter Wever back to life, and change the decisions so that...
Doesn't seem unusual to me at all, when you realize the tank destroyer had a 3.5" gun, and probably had HE rounds to use on the thin-skinned...
Good article. Had some good stuff.
Well, I think a lot of it is simply that while we know what 'we' were like, we don't know much about how 'they' thought. Therefore the compulsion...
Well, all one really needs to compare is how the fought-over parts of Germany looked, and compare that to the state of Japan after the bombs....
Exactly. Really, the BoB was mostly lost in about 1938, when the decision to toss out the long-range bomber was made, and the fact that no...
And, as usual, the truth lies somewhere in between what either partisan side would have you believe. Seems to be a recurring theme in history.
Preaching to the choir, Tomcat, preaching to the choir.:headbonk:
Please keep in mind that many of us who live here in the US don't particularly care for Hollywood or CNN's (or Fox or ABC or...) way of looking at...
