Except in government and the military where you measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a crayon, and cut it with a chainsaw, all to the 20...
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The LPH was specialized for helicopter operations while the LSD (Landing Ship Dock) was specialized for landing craft operations. The combination...
Aboard the Enterprise, there was one variant called "4 RAR coffee" (RAR = Reactor Auxiliaries Room). The ET's had taken a standard Navy coffee...
[IMG] This one has good academic research on the subject and for that reason is worth getting. However, Mills' conclusions and historical...
The most notable thing about DE's is that most of them were manned by Coast Guard crews, not the USN. This is because the USN saw commerce...
I've had to mass produce a lot of terrain features for wargaming and such, so I know shortcuts
Quicker and easier is to use drywall joint compound (aka "mud") mixed with 120 to 400 grit sand (sand blasting sand is best but even coarse play...
A few notes related to fuel: While the standards varied by nation back then--that is what the US called an "octane" was different from the German...
If you want a big impact item on Market Garden, particularly the 1st Airbourne Division at Arnheim, I'd research the failure of the Rebecca...
Offhand, I don't know if the 24th is a regular army, reserve, or national guard unit. That would be a good place to start. Federal troops are a...
Ship rotation usually was 2 to 3 years at sea then you could get rotated to either another ship or to a shore command. Sailors on ships that were...
In good part, the FAA wanted the second seat in planes to provide for a crewman that could assist the pilot in finding the carrier on a return...
If the Enterprise (or Hornet) replaced Lexington at Coral Sea, and the battle played out the same way, the difference would be that Enterprise...
[IMG] That is probably the oldest ship to serve actively at Guadalcanal. It is the AGS 3 Oceanographer originally completed in 1898 as the...
[img] That's the PT base at Tulagi harbor across from Guadalcanal. Note the small floating drydock brought in to service the boats. Florida...
I think the funniest thing I ever saw in that game was a scenario where there was off shore battleship support for an amphibious assault and a 14"...
Drop tanks don't matter if you can't replace your losses even with them, cannot replace lost pilots in a timely fashion, or that you don't have...
If you read the thread, and that was quite a while ago that I started it, I made it clear or thought I did that part was PFM. The method Germany...
