"Hurting Truth"-- I find it hard to believe that ANYONE could think that Italy had naval "victories" over the British in the Med in WW II (the...
What the British managed to do with ONE aircraft carrier attack at Taranto was, IMHO, a more efficient and devastating blow to an enemy's naval...
OK, so this old duffer is NOT into computer games, but the "face-to-face" type that seem to be extinct. Moving little illustrated cardboard...
"Ruining" Midway for the Japanese?: Don't need to run in "cruisers" or anything else, really. A couple of US Subs with 5" guns is all you need....
I actually think there are too many variables to "accurately" speculate the outcome. As the British found out in the Med, trying to BRING A...
Singapore Repair Facilities? [Takao] >EDIT: I would also add that while Singapore did have drydocks, it had no repair facilities to repair...
re: American Readiness to go to War?? [Carronnade]>Let me rephrase the question - do you recall from your reading any congressman or senator...
Pearl Harbor, Midway, Guam, and/or the Phillipines are deliberately NOT attacked as the Japanese move South to take over the riches of Indonesia....
A thought now transferred over from a diversion from a "how to avoid disaster at Pearl" thread: *IF* the Japanese decide against attacking...
It *JUST* occurred to me that there are "international" members of this forum here, and with a name like "Takao" (a Japanese mountain), that...
Identity Crisis? [Takao] >You have either been "thrashed" by one to many breaking waves....Not once in this thread have I mentioned Congress or...
re: delayed DoW.. [lwd] >Part of the answer to this may be that FDR tended to listen to his military advisors. He didn't always follow their...
"Imminent" War?? [Freebird] >I didn't mention that a declaration of war was imminant. What I was saying that public support was there for action...
"Congressional Vote"? We know a bit about the sometimes convoluted political processes of Congress: There is always a lot of "posturing",...
"How will it play in Peoria?" The Ehrlichman/Nixon phrase for "how will Middle America respond?" is apt here. The polls for "war fever" were MUCH...
re: Polls and such-- I just *LOVE IT* when people post "proof" that argues AGAINST their own position, which both Freebird and Takao have done....
Misplaced Attribution. Whoa! Somebody is putting, or attempting to put, words in my mouth AND has a poor grasp of history. >The Pearl Harbor...
Post-Attack Measures: Sure, OP, I remember those ARMY measures for preparedness. The radars were JUST getting installed and barely operational on...
A *WELL-CO-ORDINATED* Combat Air Patrol keeps a contingent available for attacks at different altitudes. STANDARD attack procedure for both the...
re: Declarations of War??-- >[Takao] I would think that it require much less "provocation" to get a DoW against Japan than it would to get a DoW...
