Not practical. First problem is that only Hornet and Saratoga could handle the harder landings of the TBFs at the time. Yorktown's landing...
I don't know about Yamaguchi. He certainly would not have been able to save Yamamoto's ruined battle. Two commanders I think MIGHT have had an...
On the other side of the battle, we have Zuikaku, the OTHER carrier that possibly should have been there. According to Shattered Sword, She came...
Here is my best crack at answering my own question. Critical viewpoints and constructive criticism are;of course, welcome. The four factors I see...
I know historically that USS Saratoga arrived at Pearl Harbor on June 6, 1942. Delays in loading aircraft in San Diego and in assembling escorts...
Perhaps. Though the suggestion that an attempt to maintain US ambivalence would somehow have been a more dangerous strategy than walking up to...
In the absence of Stanhope Ring, (Let us say his aircraft developed engine trouble shortly after launch and had to abort.) which squadron...
The very fact that Pearl Harbor was attacked at all was a flaw in Japanese planning. Admiral Nagano was quite correct in his opinion that Japan...
