Anniversary of last Royal Navy fighter victories against Japanese on VJ-day: Armored CV ("CVA"? - my term) HMS Indefatigable strike of Avengers...
I have read that "300+" planes were stationed at Trincomalee and/or Colombo April '42 when the Japanese carrier force struck, but I know of only a...
The South Dakota class sounds to me like the perfect solution to the 35,000-ton battleship design; The only thing I would want is covered...
JCalhoun wrote that the South Dakota class BB was "better than the Tirpitz in every way". ---------------- And they seemed very compact...
And I should have mentioned that the Merchant Aircraft Carrier MAC ships were not all British crewed either. At least some were Dutch, possible...
corpcasselbury asked: "Did the pair receive updated AA outfits during the war? Most Allied warships bristled with 20mm and 40mm mounts by 1944."...
Long ago I modeled a Hawker Typhoon of the Royal Canadian Air Force; it was representing an example that flew in early 1945, I think from an...
In the Osprey book on the Churchill tank, there is mention that the men servicing the tanks before operations could be at their task all night...
Private venture, and initiative, resulted in the great Mosquito aircraft. Another clever venture, though not so glamorous or famous, was THe...
I have seen photos of U.S. North Carolina class BB in service with KGV-class in the Atlantic, mid-war, I think for a russian convoy run. How...
Rodney & Nelson didn't have much in the way of tertiary armament flak, but the secondary 6" turrets seemed to have a good degree of elevation -...
Remembered one more thing - The British 1600 lb AP bomb for the Barracudas sounds like a huge amount of explosive, considering it's total...
Thanks much to both for the orders-of-battle! I forget about these operations and keep thinking of the January '45 Indonesia raids as the...
In April -Aug 1944 came some potential air combats I thought would be unique and interesting during RN attacks on Tirpitz - that is, carrier...
I recall seeing images in painting guides, etc. of the Lancaster II, with 2 unique things - radial engines, and a small remotely powered ventral...
Thanks for all the replies and info - it sounds like first-round hitting-power is so important that more often than not it is preferred over a...
Some I didn't know about - Jan 1945 HMS Trenchant & Terrapin on patrol in the Malacca straight, sunk trawlers etc by gunfire and RAMMING....
There used to be an old police show called "Adam 12", and in one episode, the 2 patrolling officers were horrified to see a M-8 armored car...
Was the Hawk 200 single-seat fighter variant ever produced? I had the impression it would be a cheap paltform that could launch the latest...
Assuming no help from the United States (that is I would not be supplied larger quantities of P-39 & P-40 that were used by RAF in '41), I would...
