All depends on what you want to call a dive bomber and how you want to define dive bombing.
The Japanese had more than two carriers left after Midway, more like about six, let’s see, Shokaku, Zuikaku, Zuiho, Ryujo, Junyo, and Hosho, and that...
Umm, it helped just a bit that the USN was reading the IJN's mail . . . always makes knowing where to look and positioning one's forces a little...
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Boondoggle
What might be blindingly obvious to the dilettante sitting at a key board from 70 years away was equally blindingly in opposition to Japanese...
See below link. All correct except the part about currently living in Virginia Beach. That little squib was written exclusively for that site in...
Haven't been to Pensacola since 1998. Still one of my favorite museums . . . as I sit 15 miles from the capital of the Confederacy and but 120 miles...
A simple matter of fuse settings. For the typical GP bomb, the USN tended the set nose fuses at about 0.00125 seconds and the tail fuse at about...
Except in 1941 you, as a brand new, shiny gold bars ensign, with a brand new set of wings on your chest, checking the orders list to see which...
My original 1942 Janes Fighting Ships comes in handy. The main gun turrets were typical of german naval design, observe there were three guns per;...
It is called padding . . . it is generated by the sender and appears at the beginning and the end of a message. Serves two purposes: (1) serves as...
Gneisenau
Without a doubt, the advent of the modern warship, in action from, say, from from the First World War forward changed the way of doing business in...
Not a fact. This is just Pearl Harbor Conspiracy Industry repeat it until everyone believes it nonsense. There is absolutely no evidence that the...
IF while ENTERPRISE was the sole US aircraft carrier in theater (which is a totally different proposition from "the sole standing Carrier of the US...
Okay, so you are a self styled expert on uranium. Now, again, where is your documented evidence . . . something beyond "would have" "could have" and...
And your specific evidence that said uranium, regardless of form, was refined and used in to build any bomb dropped on Japan is exactly, what?
You were doing okay until you got the the plutonium & submarine part. That's an urban legend based in part on the capture of U-234 at the end of the...
A mushroomed shape cloud is not necessarily an atomic phenomenon, a big enough bang will produce same. Plenty of examples if you look hard enough....
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