What gets lost in discussions of what the best approach to Japan could have or should have been, and whether or not invading the Philippines was...
Just my opinion, but based in part on a small bit of experience.... under sustained shelling/bombing, everyone will "break" sooner or later, if it...
This account, regardless of its accuracy or lack thereof (I wouldn't know) could illuminate just a little of why Adm. Fletcher was "put out to...
I guess this is obviously a separate issue from Yamamoto's "genius", but there was little chance of the US "losing interest" I don't believe. Far...
I wouldn't know anything about how many there were, but by '44 (when dad shipped overseas) I guess we had plenty of radar in use and a fair number...
5th Air Force 43rd Bomber Group, radar repair guy, deployed to New Guinea (Lae I believe?), Luzon (Clark Field) in '45, Ie Shima, and Tokyo post...
3 big impacts of MacArthur's hypothetical death: 1. Postwar Japan 2. 1944/45 liberation of Philippines - does it still happen and to what degree?...
Coral Sea was a victory for the US in which the Japanese failed to reach their objective and USN successfully defended what they intended to...
Like others, I don't blame him for wanting to get the enemy carriers. When he got the report that they were there, that's ENEMY CARRIERS. He had...
I see this a little differently. There were only so many planes and only so many ships. Had the IJN had the majority of their combat power up...
Yamamoto at Midway, up to a point, sort of reminds me of McClellan at Antietam - had a superior force but never brought it to bear in a way that...
Trying to answer the original question, the only basis I know of for calling Yamamoto a genius was the Pearl Harbor attack.... otherwise (and...
Of course I say Roll Tide. Peanut butter on cornbread is also a good combination, if you can manage to spread it without crumbling the bread.
Until I read this http://www.combinedfleet.com/pearlops.htm link you posted it never occurred to me to use the Wake Island invasion as a barometer...
Evans did receive a posthumous Medal of Honor so I don't know it's accurate to say he's "unrecognized". Perhaps not the household name that Chris...
I was an electronics technician in Bill Clinton's navy.
Of being conquered by the Japanese, I mean. I've never been real clear on this question. Perhaps this is sort of an alternate history question, as...
Let's see if I can answer all the required questions here.... My name is squidly. It's nautical. I'm a USN veteran. I'm 44. from Alabama, but...
