The point is that Illustrious was rebuilt and modified in a short time, because they put very considerable resources into her (In Alexandria,...
It is more difficult to land in a small, remote, well defended island like Wake, Guam, Midway or Tarawa than in a large one (minefields, coastal...
Torpedoes are by far the least efficient and most expensive way to scuttle a ship, especially when you know that your expensive torpedoes are...
this is from my aviation file, I'm sure you can google a source. Major Charles Carpenter (Bazooka Charlie, the Mad Major, Lucky Carpenter)...
Thanks for pointing out so politely that it was Hornet, instead of Lex, which the USN was unable to scuttle. The point remains.
Returning to the USSR. At the W border Stalin has an offensive force, rather than a defensive one. He just had no clue about how ill suited that...
Although it was available as Takao pointed out (ATL those planes from Alaska are deployed in Midway), it doesn't take the E to defeat the A6M in...
Indeed, its too bad that the RN did not have the sense to realize that it was better to leave Illustrious as a target in Malta than to sail her to...
Scutling, whether, by explosive charges, opening valves, shelling, bombing or torpedoes counts just as sinking. The Japanese just wasted...
Littorio was hit by 3 bombs from USAAF B-24 on June 19, 1943 in La Spezia. The reference mentions an attack on June 16 and south of Sicily by RAF...
Takao, Your source is clearly wrong, It is easy to quote absurd statistics. It is simply impossible to make an aluminum plane with only 825 hp,...
In August or early Nov 1942 the axis air force in Sardinia is comparable to that concentrated in minute Midway in June (except in Sardinia there...
Within 6 minutes, 3 IJN fleet carriers received enough damage to sink and Hiryu within hours, all only by bombs Sad thing is that the RN did not...
But you do see it wasting invaluable time, labor, shipyard space, engineering, an elevator, etc, to straighten, patch and modify a glorified CVL...
Takao, Is your memory span so limited that you forgot that I specified deploying the B-26 and P-38 stupidly wasted in Alaska, for what is knwon to...
All the tooling for Hornet was readily available and required for repairs and it is certainly faster for the shipyard crews to build an identical...
Rich, Replace Isn't is moronic, with isn't it moronic (one letter shouldn't keep you from understanding), everything else is perfectly clear,...
Because it is faster to build an identical Hornet than the first Essex class carriers. Because having a Hornet-like, new Ranger II is much better...
Again, this operation is happening when Malaya, Burma, the DEI, HK, and PI are secured (dozens of divs have little to do), so there are plenty of...
thanks, I moved to the right thread
