> but you seem to be saying that if someone chooses not to do something, that "proves" that it was impossible or impractical.< Not at all, as far...
"Nix" to Nets: Torpedo nets were discussed as protection for Pearl Harbor battleships, but rejected by Kimmel as encumbering the speedy deployment...
Last year I was at "Hypocenter", the point under which the Nagasaki bomb was detonated. There is a monument there to mark the location, and...
re: "The wood" >How'd you get the wood?< I belong to the "USS Enterprise CV-6 Association" which had acquired the souvenir wood from a Navy...
On a modelling site I recently found an "Italian" trimotor early jet fighter that resembled something I had made decades earlier (I named it,...
Yeah, they must have been from Oklahoma! For all the "warts" of the "Pearl Harbor" movie, the exciting combat scenes of the "Battle of Britain"...
I suppose it's a whole 'nother subject of great length/interest, but if Pearl wasn't a good target (due to a "shell-game" of ship-shuffling and...
Gotta re-iterate, though, my time here may be limited. I will put either pics or links to the tribute USS Enterprise I did--short answer: I used...
I built a 1/72 model of one, highly modified to a what-if "Aichi 119", as if part of "Kommando Marschall" operating in the Pacific (note...
Hey, I resemble that remark!! Those three "faves" of yours are MY what-if models!! I have many more, believe me!! Craig (sequoiaranger, or...
Nobody mentioned the service use of the TBF/TBM by the British, then named "Tarpon". They HAD to like these Tarpons' capabilities after the...
I think that people too readily associate the torpedo CARRIER with the bum torpedo it had to haul around. People point to the debacle at Midway...
Lots of salient points discussed here. I think the lack of a strategic bomber PROGRAM was a good choice for Germany. As was said, Germany's...
I've been through the canal on a ship--a MARVELOUS operation. But simpler than one might think. It works almost exclusively on GRAVITY, not pumps....
I readily admit to having quite a fondness for the He-100 (have made several models of them, and my own extrapolations), but it was not QUITE the...
And Saratoga? As I recall, the Sara was just a couple days sailing away and missed the main action. If Yorktown was not initially present (maybe...
re: "not moving". Yes, of course! I already addressed that. But given that the British had almost THREE TIMES the torpedoes to unleash, might that...
I have enjoyed reading this "old" thread, but I think a few things have been overlooked, and most especially, undervalued. There is nothing in...
Lots of gibberish in this thread! One of the "false assumptions" for the Conspiracy Theorists (Dexter L?) is that no American carriers would have...
The "secret" part of 618's mission was the use of the new "Highball" bouncing depth-charges (smaller, rounder versions of the "Upkeep" weapons...
