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Their remaining carriers were used to ferry supplies to Luzon a few times, but otherwise, yeah, by the time the kamikazes were employed...

The same way they didn’t concede the field in the run up to Santa Cruz: by dancing around just out of reach, always a threat lurking in...

Okay, I'm going to try and explain this again. If the Japanese use kamikaze tactics at Eastern Solomons, and if, as you claim, they are...

Oh, please. They're not severing the line to Australia, period. They don't have the ground forces on hand to pull off FS successfully...

Sure: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1951/february/battle-philippine-sea Newer sources I have put the total Japanese...

No. Their electronics industry isn't up to snuff for producing radars that small.

Yes, of the 402 aircraft the Japanese lost at Philippine Sea 366 were lost to fighters and only 19 by anti-air guns. It’ll make no...

Tried. Buying Amatsukaze shanked their budget in the kidneys. Nobody's going to give them the ships, because nobody's stupid enough to...

This is literally impossible? Hood's sisters were cancelled in 1919, they can't be completed after Washington since they don't exist...

The problem, of course, being that the Japanese don’t have 54 extra Kates and their crews available when they were reorganizing their...

To the first point: it’s a much bigger difference than you’re making it out to be. See again my post about the IJN Air Admiral from...

Oh, so they're going to catch the American carriers with their pants down and decks full of fueled and armed aircraft? Oh, wait, they...

How are they supposed to sink a carrier without torpedoes, thereby introducing water?

The problem is that if they go suicide tactics early in the war, then the naval aviation will die at Midway and Coral Sea rather than...

Quite honestly I doubt there would be more carrier losses, for the simple reason that every American carrier lost in 1942 was lost to...