I agree that it was as bad if not worse. What I would like to point out though (not many realize this) is that it was due to near simultaneous...
I guess what I was trying to say here is that he could have at least used what he had in some type of air search. If limited in number of assets,...
You make it sound as if Kimmel didn't have enough search planes on hand when to the contrary is more of the case. Kimmel, from just the navy, had...
From what I have read over the years between PatWing 1 and PatWing2, there were only 7 patrol planes in the air on the morning of 07Dec41. 3...
Thanks for the warm reception. I don't intend to go away again but like last time, sometimes life has a way of interupting one's plans. :D
Mike, As an old member who has just recently returned I am extremely pleased to see that the Pacific Theater has grown in interest here since I...
Found another site regarding the major that seems a little more detailed, evidently Major Chin was discharged from the Chinese Air Force prior to...
A photo of the aforementioned USS Washington about 3 months prior to her engagement with the IJN battleship Kirishima....
Too true...evidently Major Chin was shot down and wounded on no less than three occasions during the war also. http://www.sinoam.com/ARTHURCHIN2.htm
Currently reading Evan Thomas' Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign.
5 miles Otto????? :eek: Just hope it wasn't your phone I was working on in the rain today.
Not sure if your still monitoring this but I just got through to the site, interestingly enough through Comcast cable from Evergreen Park Il.
Hello all, allow me to re-introduce myself... My name is Bill and my main area of interest is the Pacific Theater. After being away from the...
Sorry about the lack of posts recently....after much consideration due to events with my family I will be away from my computer for extended...
March 12, 1940 -Russo-Finnish War ends. Finnish desire to win back territory lost to Soviet encroachment (city of Viborg and areas along Finland's...
March 11, 1940 -U.S. freighter Exmoor, detained at Gibraltar by British authorities since 9 March, is released. March 11, 1941 -Congress passes...
March 10, 1940 -U.S. freighters Explorer, Exchester, and West Cohas are detained at Gibraltar by British authorities; all are released, however,...
March 9, 1940 -U.S. freighter Exmoor is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities. March 9, 1942 -Naval Air Transport Service Squadron (VR 1)...
March 8, 1940 -War again comes to the Americas: Canadian destroyer HMCS Assiniboine stops German freighter Hannover in Mona Passage, off the coast...
