Gosh, that's an awful positive statement. It assumes everything will go perfectly according to the supposed Japanese plan. Darwin, and it's...
Nations do not have "friends", they have interests. If the interests of nations converge, they are likely to become allies, either formal or...
No need to apologize. The originator of this what-if left too many questions open for anyone to offer up any definitive answer. Actually, even if...
My understanding is that the "Brisbane Line" was a conceptual defensive line between Adelaide and Brisbane that was intended to defend the most...
I'm not changing anything; read my original post. And personally, I really don't care what you think I look like.
Where did you come by this information? Crew quality would really depend on the time period. The IJN generally had very good crews early in the...
Yes, increasing the size/power of the warhead was a common thing for many countries throughout WW II. With Aerial torpedoes, it was also common to...
Well, how many people have to die before someone (Napitano?? Obama??) steps up to the plate and does something to fix the problem? I don't see...
If it was, it was probably only called that in the popular media. See the following link; Japan Torpedoes of World War II
Nope, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989.
Luzon and Malaya were planned pre-war, Darwin was not. As H. P. Willmott points out in "Empires In The Balance", not a single operation planned...
T.A. Gardner set the timeframe for the Darwin invasion as "late May early June ". So what does the IJN order of battle in late July, 1942, have to...
Unless I'm mistaken, weren't there a couple P-26's involved in the defense against the Pearl Harbor Attack? And didn't they get at least one kill?...
Well, that seems to have been a major point of contention between the US and Britain, and "Drumbeat" was did result in a lot of ships lost simply...
That isn't the difference, the difference is they have no evidence of the activities you assert.
Yeah, I'll just bet the rotors didn't cause any torque problems! Maybe the Germans found a way to get around the laws of physics? Can you imagine...
Not sure what you are getting at? As far as I know, there were no Buffaloes deployed to the Philippines in 1941. They were in Singapore because...
Excuse me, but it seems to me that "having a connection to both al-Qaida and Yemen." should have been enough to get this young man from getting...