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Giving Halsey authority over Lyster simply makes no sense. Halsey is a TF commander with dubious intel. As free as possible means...

Trying to work out why Lyster sacrificed his air groups, rather than wait a few hours and brutalise any located Japanese carriers...

The attacks from Midway were anything but ineffectual as they keep disrupting the japanese. See Shattered Sword. Knowing who is where...

Wit no details on the carrier loads or tf locations, it is pretty impossible to work out wat is hapenning and why. In OTL a second...

Winkle Brown said it would be a poor carrier fighter. I tend to take his word

Why on earth will Lyster fight a day battle rather than a night one? Especially beforehand

given the ability of the FAA to do evil things to you at night, Japanese losses seem light. I agree that it would be sensible to define...

So we send our supply shipping into a bottlneck covered by salivating RN sub commanders. Thats going to end well...

SeaMole?? I'll go get my coat now...

Unlike RL, Alternative History stories have to make sense :P

any torpedo bomber is a sitting duck in daylight

Regarding the analysis of a carrier battle, there are a few points. The RN are not getting into a daytime fight unless cornered - why on...

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food. fuel. armaments.

why not? Portugal is allied to Britain, and they dont exactly love the Spanish. Not joining the embargo might get you added to it