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Doomed to say "I told you so!"

And if you're landing the pby in the water, you're going to want your bow gunner, since he doubles as the bowhook. Although I suppose you could make the navigator do it.

Well, since the fighter weapons school got moved to Nevada and the Marines moved back into Miramar (once again, MCAS), I don't know if that's still true.

Camp Elliot? You mean Marine Corps Air Depot Camp Kearny? Which would later become MCAS Miramar, then NAS Miramar, home of the (in)famous fighter weapon school?

If Adm. Nimitz doesn't have advanced warning, he abandons Midway to its fate. The only reason he defended it was that he had a chance to ambush the Japanese; without that chance the Marines are on their own. IF (note big if) the Japanese actually take Midway, well the island is in range to be...

Thank you. So, to reinforce the IO, they have to pull from the home defense force or the eastern perimeter force. They might send a couple of Kongo's, but as battlecruisers they have no business getting in gun range of a BB. And for anything less than a BB, Japanese heavy cruisers are good...

IIRC, after the Guadalcanal landings the IJN moved a half dozen battleships to Truk: Yamato, Nagato, and the 4 Kongo class. I don't know where the other five active ships are. (Musashi wouldn't be available for combat ops for months after her commissioning date, except in desperation.)

Anyone else play the old SSI computer game, 'North Atlantic 86'? Because that was the scenario, you played as NATO trying to keep Atlantic open.

Indeed, they started the war without enough shipping for their civilian needs, military needs make it worse, and the combat losses will (eventually) make it disastrous.

I strongly recommend anything by Dunnigan, but the list of "important islands" includes a Easter Egg for fans of 1930s science fiction...

This ring, only, was made by the Elves (Who'd hock their own mother to get at it themselves) Ruler of creeper and mortal and scallop, This one's a sleeper that packs might a wallop If broken or busted it cannot be remade If found, send to Sorehead (The postage is pre-paid)

I only saw hot bunking on short term emergency basis. And it was rare. (20 years, 1984-2004, surface navy)

I always wondered what Lt. Tomonaga's radioman and gunner thought about that maneuver. "Sir, what are you doing? Sir? Sir!"

Thoughts on 'Dugout Doug' MacArthur... (this is after reading page thirty, so I might be ninja'd or overtaken by events) I don't think Mac is going to get a evacuation order. Instead of being rescued to Australia to command SW Pac, he's going down with his men in Corregidor ("Hold to the last...

Well, I knew he had lost something off his hand... Nicknames in 'that sort of business' are common around the world, I think, it can cause issues when you overhear someone's real name 'in that sort of place' ("Mayor Thompson, what are you doing here?") IIRC, to get full airgroups for Shokaku...

Admiral Yamamoto served at Tsushima (and lost a finger, iirc). I assume that the other senior admirals were also there or at least on active duty at the time.

I'm sorry, I may have used the wrong term. I was thinking of the 'giant radioactive critter' or 'radioactive human monster' genre of horror. There will absolutely be movies like "Threads", "The Day After", and "Black Rain" realistically pointing out the horrible cost of nuclear war. Thought...

Hmmm... given the reality of radiation casualties in the U.S., would the "atomic horror" genre survive?

Nit picky: "Sir" Paul? McCarthy wasn't knighted until 1997. While awarded a MBE in 1965, that isn't a knighthood. Unless he was knighted posthumously?

I am very sure that John Walker was a Radioman (RM), not a Signalman (SM). Signalmen don't get assigned to nuclear submarines, something about drowning while attempting semaphore. (I'm a retired Signalman 1st class)