Part the second . . . Here’s some light reading for you, from the official US Army histories of World War II (all of which are available on line...
Another two parter due to character count limitations . . . Part the first: You are, of course, cherry picking. You provide the quote: '''..........
No, the USN did not use P-51s to guard B-29s. The USN did not guard B-29s . . . period. USAAF, not USN, P-51s did operate out of Okinawa and, I...
Before you go to a lot of effort . . . 1. All those P-40s you are seeing on carrier decks were simply being transported from Point A to Point B....
Continuing with Part II . . . Ah, and now, the SeaBees. There were 150 Naval Construction Battalions, 39 Special Naval Construction Battalions...
This will be a two part posting due to the 10K character/space limit of this forum Part I I have stalled on responding to the last post, but...
I will concede that perhaps I should have checked my numbers . . . especially since they show a greater preponderance of US Army combat divisions in...
It might be well to remember that in May 1945 nearly three of every four US Army divisions deployed overseas were in Europe, something like, as I...
Noles, James A Jr., Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity: The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay. See...
The Japanese were not the first to come up with this concept of essentially manning a torpedo and attacking enemy shipping. The Italian, British,...
Paul Cecil Stimson, born 3 Feb 1914, was the first commander of USS Sea Robin when the ship was commissioned on 7 August 1944 and commanded her...
Thanks for that. I usually think of just the official records, not the SIG websites. Looks like the guy to whom one might address the questions as...
The USN stopped listing duty assignments in its registers of commissioned officers after the 1940 edition. From that point the registers were simply...
Interesting story . . . golly, I hate to be a wet blanket, but USS Sea Robin (SS-407) did not deploy to Korea during the Korean War. Sea Robin's...
Don't know why they would do so. Like most of the aircraft, then and now, the A6M had a clock as a standard instrument on the instrument panel, in...
There's these . . . both from the US Army's Combined Arms Research Library . . . period piece reports . . . First, a 1945 War Department / MIS...
Were one to invest the time to study the battle of Midway, one would discover that Japanese losses in terms of pilots and air crews were not as...
The action in which USS Ward fired on, depth charged, and reported sinking an unidentified submarine in the harbor entrance to Pearl Harbor occurred...
Hostile? Not I, you'll have much more evidence than the above were I being hostile. Perhaps you are being overly defensive when someone throws a...
You do realize, do you not, that the "Flying Tigers," that is, the American Volunteer Group, did not enter combat operations against the Japanese...
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