Japanese Guerre de course: >I'm not sure they had the fuel or the ships for it and by 43 the US could afford to start attaching CVE's to a lot of...
V-Boat... >The carriers present at Coral Sea should have been at Midway, (Shoho, Shokaku, Zuikaku), and the lighter carriers that went North to...
Britain was so UN-worried about the GZ that they disdained to bother to bomb it even when it was in range to do so (they tried to bomb every other...
I certainly think the Ramilles would have a chance in a sea fight against the Bismarck, but I don't think a prudent Lutjens would allow such a...
slipdigit: >For the most part. The Bunker Hill CV-17 and Franklin CV-13 had make trips a little further back, though, to repair damage.< Surely....
Slipdigit: >Essentially, the hangar and flight decks were treated more or less as superstructire and were not integral to the hull structure and...
Takao:>As you should well know, the Taiho's demise, was not due to her armored deck.< As you should well know, I didn't say that, did I? And you...
re: Prinz Eugen as commerce raider: As it usually is in war, the guy that does it first usually has success, but the enemy learns, and the next...
re: Armored Decks---the IJN Taiho was the only operational Japanese carrier to have an armored flight deck. The Shinano also had one, but was...
OK, let's turn the tables a bit. Reverse the situation. Let's put Kurita in charge of a group of six CVE's---the Unyo, Taiyo, Chuyo, Shinyo,...
Wooden decks a "flaw"?? REALLY? The British armored carriers paid a HUGE price in lesser aircraft complement (HALF that of an Essex), and being...
I have a piece of her!! My dad was an Ensign/Lt. aboard the Enterprise during 1942/43. From the USS Enterprise Association I obtained several...
On my computer the graphic of the Mogami does not appear. :( re: Mogami as a "CV-cruiser"---mere semantics. The Mogami, after taking a bruising...
Quickly.. >@Takao - i thought Ens. Gay was the sole survivor of the Midway TBD attack. Yes? < No. Ens. Gay was the sole survivor or the...
re: Industrial capacity---Can't remember where I read it, but part of the amazing production of America was in COST EFFICIENCY. That is, I...
Air Attacks, Crew Standards, et al.: Marmat, though I would agree in part, we are talking about OVERWHELMING force here, not just a...
I just finished reading "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors". WOW. Can't say enough good things about that book. EXCELLENT account of the...
The Fw-200 was an improvisation and worked well initially, but was not "military-tough", being derived from a decidedly civilian airliner (planes...
I had read somewhere that post-war estimates of Japanese aircraft losses included some 25% from "navigational errors". Particularly, "staging"...
Yamamoto and Donitz were not the only ones surprised. The US was, too! But the US had the managerial skills to go along with resources and...
