The Wikipedia article says that the seaplane contingent was to be established on Kure Atoll some 50 miles from Midway. I don't know if the IJN...
Yamamoto's bold idea was to hit PH in order to neutralize the Pac Fleet and to keep them out of his hair during his operations in the Phillipines...
I expect Midway's airfield was about at capacity for the June battle; for example we had eighteen new Avengers of Torpedo 8 detachment on Oahu but...
Even though Halsey had removed the 3rd Fleet from the battle area off the eastern side of Samar Island, there was still considerable American...
Boy, we just send those cruisers in or boy we just hit them with a dawn carrier raid. How simple. Except your forces will have to sail several...
One of the first USN raids after PH included cruisers bombarding a Japanese outpost a few hours after sunrise. The cruisers were part of a larger...
Six heavy cruisers and a dozen destroyers doing a midnight raid on Midway would have made the place unusable. You're right, but first you...
It seems possible but it's a moot point. Something that is also often mentioned is that Midway was too small to be of much use as an offensive...
According to Wikipedia the range of the early G4 Betty's was somewhere around 3200-3700 miles one way depending on bomb load. No American bomber...
I think that Midway would have been the better choice. Wake was to far away to threaten Hawaii, but a Midway to Hawaii airstrike was doable by...
If the IJN had caught the Pac Fleet at sea, I believe that the Pac Fleet would have lost and had been forced to retreat. The IJN had too many...
One of the untold stories of December 7th was of the USS Pyro, AE-1, and the USS Nevada. Apparently,in early December of '41, the Pac Fleet was in...
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