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  1. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    Battle Count, I can remember The picture I remember but cannot find with the five extra battle flags, I cannot find online. A friend lives in Wilmington, claims she saw it recently, and is going to go photograph it so I can post it here. Another friend claims to have it already. That is one...
  2. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    I am not trolling. I was told stories of North Carolina in the Pacific from January 1941 until Midway by men that served on her. I did not take any of them seriously enough at the time and did not record them. I have seen things like the five extra battle flags at the memorial and even my...
  3. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    That was of course over four months after Midway.
  4. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    I am not roll laying. I am serious.
  5. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    Possible Encounter The whole idea of deception is to get the other side to commit resources in the wrong place. The encounter may have been a practice or hypothetical encounter but I did not first get it from the article listed. I got it from the order when it was first declassified. That...
  6. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    I am close! This is the order to Yorktown and she was operating with Washington and North Carolina, neither of which was officially in service but both had been ordered to support Yorktown. The soon to be legendary Yorktown also had a mission. “Carrier: Keep clear of Tirpitz. Aircraft attack...
  7. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    Thread that lead to the October 14th Order On September 1, in OPERATION PLAN 7-41, Admiral King set down in upper case his interpretation of the President’s letter to Admiral Stark. Stamped SECRET, King’s analysis went to ten Navy task forces and four patrols - Northern, Gulf, Caribbean and...
  8. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    This is not what I am looking for but it is interesting that Terpitz was active in September of 1941 as a squadron leader. Officially Washington and North Carolina were still in training as well and had civilian construction teams still on board. After sea trials, Tirpitz was stationed in...
  9. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    Agreed. That is one of the declassified listings I lost over the years. I am looking for it and will link it when I find it. The date I do remember because it was my anniversary, October 14.
  10. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    Another Picture of St Paul This is not as good of a picture but it does show the similarity of the funnels much better: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/StPaul_%28CA-73%29.jpg
  11. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    Thank you for the picture links. That is one of the things I have found. They are similar, maybe at a distance could be confused. Even the funnels are similar, just farther apart. I have seen pictures of the Doolittle raid ships at the Museum of the War in the Pacific in Fredericksburg...
  12. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    Update on BB-55 I am an engineer that can do simultaneous equations for rocket propulsion, so when you can do those without error, please carry on correcting my spelling. If the meaning confuses you, please ask. If I ever do write the book, or publish one of my fictions, I will gladly pay an...
  13. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    This could be fun as an alternate history, but there is a possibility it may actually be the real history: I believe the United States may have hidden a Battleship in plane eyesight from early in 1942 until after the battle of Midway. My suspicion began in the late 1980s and I regret that I...
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