Even if the RN provides the USN a carrier to replace Ranger, while Ranger II is commissioned (so the USN can continue training, etc,), the RN has...
Between being laid down and being comissioned, 4 years and a few weeks lapsed for Wasp, 2 y and a month for Hornet, 1 y and 8 months for Essex, 1...
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No it doesn't. The illustrious was never much use. Like I said, the allies would have been better off, had she sunk in Malta and that crew were...
O'Connor was captured after Churchill took away his experienced and very successful troops, sent them to IEA and Greece and put O'Connor on the...
Construction and repair time are a matter of how many resurces you put into a ship. For example, repair estimates for Yorktown after Coral Sea far...
Mountbatten was put in charge of Illustrious in August, he was recalled in Oct only to be given an even better position than Illustrious....
This is 1 April 1939. Belgium, France, Holland and Britain are completely unprepared and Holland falls in a few days. Belgium finds itself facing...
http://www.my-crete-site.co.uk/freyberg.htm THe NZ prime minister's message to Churchill. "My government is of opinion that our troops should...
Precisely because it is a direct and unsurmountable threat at France and Britain, they cannot afford to start the war from a weak position. You do...
It's really funny how you conjure up facts in a hypothetical scenario, Was it not glaringly obvious that German aggression had to be stopped when...
It doesn't subvert anything. I stated that even the poor TBD had performed much better than the B-17 antishipping before Midway (so the B.17 were...
That is a lame excuse, if you're ordered to hold at any cost, you forget about evacuating and redeploy the people where the fighting is taking...
The 90 mm AA gun was excellent and available in June 1940, a few dozen would have decimated the slow Matilda. It fired a heavier shell than the...
Just look at Malaya. The Japanese did not need pretty beaches, hundreds of LC, etc, to land and kick butt, they did so, outflanking repeatedly the...
B-17 had proven completely ineffective in antishipping, high altitude, level bombing in the PI, Coral Sea, New Guinea, etc, before Midway. Out of...
As in Crete, Malaya, Luzon, Sicily, Sumatra, Java, Guadalcanal, Leyte, Luzon again, Saipan, IWO, Okinawa, etc, one definitely has to defend the...
Tell that to the thousands of casualties on both sides. Patton faced more difficulties in Morocco than in Gela. His troops were strafed in Morocco...
Thanks for the info. In May 1943 the Germans were already in Vichy France (including Corsica) and with the allies in N Africa, they had deployed...
