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authors notes: So that wraps it up So tens of thousands saved that were historically lost, double the Japanese casualties, and Japanese forces sucked in to a campaign that historically were used elsewhere. Hope you enjoyed the story Thanks for all the kind words

Epilogue The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon For 200 days American and Filipino soldiers, sailors and airmen have fought a gallant and determined defense against a powerful Japanese military and has done far better than prewar planners ever expected and inflicted far more damage than the Japanese...

Thank you I am hoping I got around some of those objections to Richardson with the Fleet Problem XXII chapter

OOPS... forgot to edit that

I will take another look

per this, total Allied losses for the year 1942 were a 8,339,000 tons (1,859 ships, average tons per sinking 4,500) http://www.usmm.org/wsa/shiploss.html luckily the Americans built some 6,000 ships during the war (mostly of larger tonnage per ship than those lost) a useful link that wikipedia...

adjustments to the Raid on Trondheim Further review determined that the most likely fighters would be the Sea Hurricanes, and yes the RN can operate more aircraft than what I initially found for them. The fighters matter as they will be facing ME109F2s of III/JG5. Both Allied fighters are at...

still working on the British CV airgroups, so expect changes.

it is indeed

authors note Yes there will be a chapter called "Halsey in the Atlantic" There will be a full explanation of the concentration of force at Norway in September 1942, but it all comes back to the loss of Cunningham, Malta and disaster suffered by PQ 17 and the fact that Halsey is available and in...

US Navy forces Battle of Tarawa August 1942 Commander US Forces: Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance Task Force 16 (R Adm Frederick Sherman) CV Enterprise (flag for Sherman) w Carrier Air Group 6 (Cmmdr Max Leslie), 36 Wildcat, 35 Dauntless, 15 Avenger CV Saratoga w CAG 3 (Cmmdr Harry Felt) 28...

authors notes: Based on my best guesses from losses in the story line so far, Japanese pilot training information, and production information and taking into account losses from operational attrition as well as combat. The IJN has managed to keep pace with losses, but only just, and only...

Japanese Naval Aviation August 1942 The Hawaiian Island Campaign, with the heavy losses over Oahu and further losses at Midway, was a devastating blow to what had until then been a superb weapon. The two naval battles cost the Japanese 200 naval pilots and 350 aircraft from all causes. Fierce...

yes indeed Doing the prep work for a massive naval battle that is coming soon in the South Pacific, and a major event happens in Norway too

finished: "Battle at Dawn", "Rising Sun on Tropical Seas" and now "Eisenhower in the Pacific: The Shoestring warriors of Luzon" Coming soon, chapters in "Flattops and Flyboys" and "A Hard Won Victory" as events in the Pacific move forward in July - October 1942 Also an interlude set in the...

I ran across that one back in high school when I read "But not in Shame" (John Toland) and "Corregidor: Saga of a Fortress" (brothers Belote) and it has always touched me deeply

authors note An epilogue will be written later this week or next weekend, Hope you enjoyed it The last message out of Corregidor (historical) ''I feel sick at my stomach. I am really low down. They are around now smashing rifles. They bring in the wounded every minute. We will be waiting...

June 25 early morning hours Japanese shelling is reduced to a more sustained level after midnight, but is still heavy enough to make movement difficult and to continue to exhaust the endurance of the remaining defenders. At 0500 hours the shelling stops again, and the defenders are finally able...

true. However these submarines were considered expendable, otherwise they wouldn't have been assigned to this mission which was viewed as very high risk. But at least some of the crew survived

authors notes The Japanese Navy did purchase a lot of Royal and US Navy mines left over from World War I, and used them during the war. Luckily for the Allies, the Japanese were limited to contact mines only, and almost never used them offensively, but I decided that Admiral Niima was...