What might have been of real, concrete value to the US Navy is if the British could have spared a couple of cruisers to send to Australia so the...
XF5F Skyrocket: [IMG] Test flown in April 1940, the prototype XF5F was a prospective carrier fighter designed in competition with the F4F, XF4U,...
As a fan of alternate history, I have come across a few planes that most people are not familiar with. For various reasons of technology, timing,...
Anything that aided her stability issues would certainly have helped. of course a study of the damage reports for both the January and August...
Lexington ALSO took two such torpedoes and her flotation was not compromised. Her fatal problem was in the rupturing of the AV gas bunker that was...
Life has no certain guarantees, but the odds are that Saratoga's presence would likely have resulted in a second SBD squadron and more fighters...
Fair question. All things considered had the Torpedo squadrons not been decimated, I expect some of the crews would soon have transferred to...
Of course US carriers operated in singletons in the earliest months of the war. The pinprick raids helping to season the Americans and were...
The USN DID in early May 1942 ask that the British to send one of their three carriers then assigned to their Eastern and Indian Ocean Fleet to...
In regards to Hiryu, for decades, accepted wisdom was that she was further removed from the rest and may have been obscured by cloud cover....
Reading further in Nimitz Graybook Volume 1, reinforces limited utility of using VF-5 or VF-72 at this time as these were 18 plane squadrons and...
I actually do not see it as a large problem. I feel strongly she would certainly have been more effective than Hornet and her mere presence would...
Aside from the Nimitz graybook, are there any available sources to view the messages sent by CINCPAC around this time? Graybook volume 1 page 482...
I am interested in why the IC generator was left unsecured even though gas fumes had forced the evacuation of that and adjacent compartments.
An interesting variation would be to assume the absence of Stanhope Ring. John Waldron was senior squadron commander. What would have been the...
I think the restriction of TF-1 may have had more to do with a lack of escorts and a desire by Nimitz to keep Pye (Who clearly wanted to come to...
Enterprise went into drydock at Pearl to get her gear replaced immediately after Midway. The job was not difficult per say but still need a few...
Notes on air group cohesiveness: It has been suggested that a group such as the one postulated here for Saratoga would be dangerously...
Here goes for my best case scenario on this topic: May 22, 1942: Hypo confirms objective AF is Midway. CinCPac instructs that "All necessary and...
With VB-2 and VT-2 virtually intact and the survivors of VF-2 all transferred to Yorktown and rolled in with VF-42, Yorktown would not have needed...
