Ship rotation usually was 2 to 3 years at sea then you could get rotated to either another ship or to a shore command. Sailors on ships that were...
In good part, the FAA wanted the second seat in planes to provide for a crewman that could assist the pilot in finding the carrier on a return...
If the Enterprise (or Hornet) replaced Lexington at Coral Sea, and the battle played out the same way, the difference would be that Enterprise...
[IMG] That is probably the oldest ship to serve actively at Guadalcanal. It is the AGS 3 Oceanographer originally completed in 1898 as the...
[img] That's the PT base at Tulagi harbor across from Guadalcanal. Note the small floating drydock brought in to service the boats. Florida...
I think the funniest thing I ever saw in that game was a scenario where there was off shore battleship support for an amphibious assault and a 14"...
Drop tanks don't matter if you can't replace your losses even with them, cannot replace lost pilots in a timely fashion, or that you don't have...
If you read the thread, and that was quite a while ago that I started it, I made it clear or thought I did that part was PFM. The method Germany...
The Me 262 was self-defeating. There are a number of reasons, starting with the poor engine reliability, that make it so. With respect to fuel,...
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Now, if it were say, June 1940, there's some room to do things. By 1942, both Germany and Japan are doomed. They've irrevocably lost their war....
In 1942? Both Germany and Japan (along with Italy) have made irreversible blunders that will lead to their defeat. It's too late for them to win...
It's called wearing your "top three." This practice is allowed today, and you see it once in a while. I actually did it later in my naval career.
The maximum firing range of a panzerfaust was about 30 meters. Accuracy was anything but high at ranges over something like 10 to 15 meters. So,...
Hands down, the best ASW patrol plane of WW 2 was the B-24 / PB4Y. A Sunderland doesn't have the range to operate off Greenland. The B-24 does....
I could see a one-shot or two-shot raid carried out this way and that would be enough for the US to definitely up their defense game. That's...
Yes, they can find each other. The Germans ran an air mail and limited passenger service to S. America using a mid-ocean stop at a tender. [img]...
Why would you need aircraft as tankers if you send a U-boat that is a tanker? The only limitation on seaplanes is weather. They land, taxi up to...
A "small V-2" might be a Wasserfall SAM. The Wasserfall was designed using the same body profile as the A-4 / V-2 just cut down in size. It was...
The V-2 - submarine scenario will not work. The V-2 uses LOX and alcohol as fuel. LOX would have to be made and stored just before the launch....
