Yes, Biak, and thanks. I've used and contributed to VPNavy's data. Good site. For others who see this, a significant portion of the...
Hallo, Stefan. Im Harz zu hause heisst überall Schönheit im Leben. Slebst bin ich Ami, doch viele Jahren in Deutschland, Bayern sowie Berlin. You...
This is a very difficult topic to chase in open literature, and even in operational reports the source of much intelligence information and the...
As WWII started in the Pacific, Patrol Wing TEN comprised two squadrons of PBY-4 Catalina flying boats, VP 101 and VP 102, each with 14 planes....
DESRON 29 comprised the thirteen old four-piper destroyers in the U. S. Asiatic Fleet during the years before the WWII and during its opening...
Little appears in the surviving records as to what became of STEWART's crew when the ship was abandoned in Sourabaja, Java. I have looked high and...
Interesting thread. I would particularly like to hear anyone with details on the shore bombardment / fire support mission carried out by PRINZ...
Good thinking. Yes, noisy diesels, good ping and MAD targets they would remain. However, higher capacity and larger storage batteries meant both...
The wayThe way this question is stated seems to me to skirt the important issue as related to the Pacific War. It is a no-brainer that the USA...
The Typ XXI Uboot, in the perceptions of the Nazi-German leadership - Hitler and Dönitz - held the potential for reversing Germany's fortunes big...
Take this GRAF SPEE idea in another direction. Here's why. She was fast for her day and her 28cm guns were not to be ignored. Let's say she breaks...
Within the ABDA Command air component (ABDAAIR) was the AARG, or Recce Group, or the reconnaissance flying boats of the American Navy (Patrol Wing...
There are only scattered fragments, but key seems to be Saburo Sakai's statement in his book that U. S. Navy PBYs of Patrol Wing TEN, U.S. Asiatic...
Hello, Kai-Petri... Yes, I have read and am working up a review on Grier's very interetsing book. I think his premise is entirely valid, and,...
Losses at Darwin... Patrol Wing TEN, U. S. Asiatic Fleet, had seaplane tender WILLIAM B. PRESTON (AVD 7) basing five PBY Catalina flying boats in...
Reinforcements to the Philippines in 1941... The Navy escorted a series of convoys into the PI moving under Army orders. They were escorted by...
Thanx a bunch.
I am trying to find again a book that slipped through my fingers. Entitled just SEAWOLF, or something like that, it was a first person account of...
