You can find and order the correct colors here: White Ensign Models WWII Royal Navy Colours
I didn't forget Juneau, or Jarvis--but both sank well away from the Sound and the battle area.
There is an excellent book on the subject, written by one of the biologists recruited to help develop the Bat Bomb. Quite funny. It was the...
Full list of IJN ships should include: Akatsuki (Japanese Akatsuki-class destroyer) Ayanami (Japanese Fubuki-class destroyer) Fubuki (Japanese...
Where the heck are Hiei, Vincennes, and Astoria on that map? Serpens was a late-war, non-combat loss so probably shouldn't be included.
Years back I added PE to quite a number of 1/700 scale ships that I had already completed. In some cases, I also repainted them more accurately....
The Iowas used 16"/50s, while the NCs & SoDaks used 16"/45s.
IIRC, by spotter aircraft. After Savo, USN cruisers sent their aircraft ashore when sortieing for night actions. The IJN, OTOH, used theirs for...
Would that he had, and would that I'd gotten him to talk more about it when he was still around. He was a "snipe", and was one of the salvage crew...
Actually, if those rifles still exist, they're 16"/45s, not 16"/50s.
As has been pointed out, IJN night-fighting training & tactics--and certainly their optics and use of specially-selected lookouts--were superior...
You know why the pockets on Caltrans safety vests are sewn on upside-down? So the maintenance guys can lean on their shovels no-hands....:D
Another failure was the IJN assumption that the USN would employ their subs in the same fashion that the IJN intended to employ theirs: as fleet...
The IJN also used aircraft to drop strings of float lights marking the course & position of US ships. In addition, the IJN's starshells were...
Hey, Formerjughead, I note you're in Chico. I'm a Sacramento native myself. Was up in your neck of the woods a bit when I still worked for Caltrans.
You'll find me in the Captain's Office as Captain's Yeoman--and don't nobody mess with the Captain's Yeoman more than once! Don't look for me on...
Quick introduction: I'm a USN Vietnam Vet, architectural historian and avocational WW2 historian, WW2 re-enactor, secretary of a successful...
