The Mark 13 was a seriously flawed weapon . . . if your targets of choice could easily exceed 30 knots. All one has to do is turn the ship with...
Part II Similarly, by the end of the war the staffs of the Fast Carrier Task Forces were pushing hard for bomb toting fighters to replace both dive...
Part I A difficult subject with bunches of factors to consider. To bring up a few . . . - Effectiveness of attack profile of a given aircraft...
Yes, yes, I am a meanie. But a basic service related background provides the ability to look at such myths and say "what utter and complete BS." Or...
It's Wiki - are you expecting accuracy? Oh, Fie! Oh Darkest Disappointment! Problem is, people read that kind of crap and, not having any related...
And just for those who have no idea how this stuff works, especially some unknown wiki writer of Hollywood drivel, any captain accepting a check for...
I am uncertain as to from whence this concept of US Army branches stems. Certainly the US Army at the time of World War II acknowledged but three...
Do not bunch up as you patrol about or you will be picking the fragments out Burma Shave
Remember the big flap about 10 years or so back when a Chinese fighter plane collided with a USN reconnaissance plane (or, I suppose, if you are...
Lack of escorting fighters making long range operations dicey? Yes, but that is hindsight. In the interwar years the strategic belief in all the big...
Re: Mitchell and bombing ships - In the afternoon of 21 July 1921, bombers of the US Army Air Service sank the derelict war prize German battleship...
The inter-war Italian navy had no real use for aircraft carriers (and one wonders what they intended to do with their two mid-war conversions - my...
It is good to remember that it took the Royal Navy, the US Navy, and the Japanese navy more than 20 years, each, to develop their individual carrier...
Too easy! Austro-Hungarian Navy - - - like the chap from "The Sound of Music"
The U S Navy had, over the course of the war, 119 carriers of all types; 11 were lost to enemy action. Britain’s Royal Navy had 64 carriers of all...
Actually, Cobb's Hill is closer to the Appomattox River than the James, near Point of Rocks. Not more than 6, maybe 7, miles from where I now sit.
I would not trade the experience of growing up in the service for anything. Used to have a problem understanding people who lived their entire lives...
The telling torpedo hit on Bismarck, as I recall, jammed the rudder and cause the ship to circle, going no where fast. From that point is was not...
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA250269 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA416080&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf...
Vagaries of combat action and weather, not that there were no tanks planned to go ashore. There were, in fact, and since you checked you know this,...
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