I wonder how useful the Narwhal and Argonaut would be in running supplies in to Bataan? If I remember correctly each sub could carry well over a ton or more and cover the distance from Australia or Pearl to the army on the peninsula.
I found this timeline one of the darkest I have read on this site. I can not bring myself to read it again. I tip my hat to Calbear for writing this story.
Was pilot cross training even available during this time? I know some of the army's aircraft could handle naval strike missions but much about overall crew training.
It was never mentioned but how much cross training has been done between army and navy pilots? I ask this because one of the design criteria for the B17 was anti shipping strikes.
One individual I humbly request is Wendell Fertig. He was a civil engineer and captain in the army reserve. He was promoted twice to Lieutenant colonel before the Philippines fell. Afterward lead a well organized guerrilla movement on Mindanao for three years afterward. I first became aware of...
One question I have is what happened to Stewarts commission? If I remember right he was a Brigadier General around 1960 having continued is military career after the war.
You are right forgot to check my geography before posting. You know Evan with a map it had to figure out who owns what group of islands and where the are.
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I thought Morocco was historically closer to the United States than Germany?
Two the point that they are have been one of our closest allies since at least President Jefferson.
And whose to say the Royal Navy would not pull a high seas fleet type maneuver and send the ship's out to sea and scuttle them rather than let the Germans have them?
I always wondered why Japan didn't keep the the Vladivostok and surrounding territory after their intervention in the Russian civil war. It would have given them an opening to potentially the rest of Siberia later. At the peak of their intervention the Japanese deployed almost 70,000 troops in...