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  1. Recommended Reading for the Pacific War

    Right over his head and bounced off the wall.:rolleyes:
  2. Mummies of the Tarim Basin

    ALL humans are decended from an African ancestor. Everything after that is nothing but noise.
  3. BardWI: WI Operation Sealion Was Succesful

    :D:p:D:p:D:p:D:p:D:p:D:p:D:p:D:p
  4. Recommended Reading for the Pacific War

    My $.02 Shattered Sword by John Parshall and Tony Tully. An exceptionally well researched work on Midway, making extensive use of original Japanese sources. First Team & First Team Guadalcanal by John Lundstrom. THE work on airpower over the first year of the Pacific War Combined Fleet...
  5. Recommended Reading for the Pacific War

    Fuchida's work has been seriously repudiated in Japan for decades; Parshall & Tully throughly deconstruct his work in Shattered Sword.
  6. What if American pilots had failed to kill Yamamoto?

    So Toland gave the figure of 240:1? Somehow I doubt that, but if it is true, it calls ALL his works into serious question.
  7. WI the FAA did sink the Bismark!?

    The U.S. was actually one of the more forward thinking navies when it came to carrier air power. It had some of the most advanced carrier aircraft in the world and had a fairly advanced set of battle theory to go with it. The difficulty that the Navy had with aircraft in the early part of the...
  8. What if American pilots had failed to kill Yamamoto?

    This has always bothered me, the concept that he was somehow a political figure, and that his demise at the hands of American fighters is some sort of assassination. This is, simply put, ludicrous. Yamamoto was an ADMIRAL, an active serving officer with a field command, He wore the uniform...
  9. Battleship Extraordinaire

    Japanese warship design was either brilliant or bizarre, sometimes both on the same hull. Having torpedoes on their cruisers was brilliant, the Long Lance had the range to equal the cruiser's guns, making it a solid addition to the ship, building several cruisers with 32, or even 40 torpedo...
  10. Battleship Extraordinaire

    The problem is actually two fold. The first is economic and practical. The Germans were so far behind that they would never be able to catch up. The USN & RN were simply too far ahead. If it was an even race four or five Bismarcks, with escorts, could have been a major pain for the Allies...
  11. WI Russia became a constitutional monarchy?

    No, he watched a National Geographic TV show on the subject. The trading card collection is only for challenge posts!
  12. BardWI: WI Operation Sealion Was Succesful

    We certainly hope not. It is meant to be insightful satire.:D
  13. BardWI: WI Operation Sealion Was Succesful

    ooc: No it isn't. We never tell him he won't be loved.:D
  14. WI the FAA did sink the Bismark!?

    Do you REALLY enjoy making a fool of yourself? Where in the name of Poseidon did you come up with that "fact". The British hit the Littorio with three of those "obsolete" torpedoes and put her in dry dock for four months & she had BETTER underwater protection than Bismarck. Bismarck's...
  15. What if American pilots had failed to kill Yamamoto?

    Yamamoto was fairly clean, at least as clean as any senior officer could be in Japan. The biggest charge that could have been thrown at him was "waging aggressive war". The IJN had fairly few prisoners (although there were a number of ship's captains who executed captured pilots right on deck &...
  16. What if American pilots had failed to kill Yamamoto?

    ONLY a half dozen??:confused::confused::confused::eek: I was figuring an entire season.
  17. What if American pilots had failed to kill Yamamoto?

    Well, clearly a bubble gum card would know better than the COMMANDER OF THE UNIT.:eek: To think that I was complaining about you using cable TV as a source. How silly of me, you have conducted rigorous, graduate level research into the subject. :rolleyes::rolleyes:
  18. What if American pilots had failed to kill Yamamoto?

    I figure the actual victories are somewhere around 140-150. My point was, of course, that even using the unit's CO as a source, the kill ratio of 240:1 was pure BS.
  19. What if American pilots had failed to kill Yamamoto?

    I must battle on, 'though the cause is lost, for I am pure of heart. Well, that a lie!:p
  20. What if American pilots had failed to kill Yamamoto?

    http://www.warbirdforum.com/vics.htm http://www.warbirdforum.com/loss.htm http://www.warbirdforum.com/casuals.htm Let's see, you claim a kill ratio of 240:1. The Tigers lost five aircraft over Rangoon in a signle day. That would mean that the Tigers had to, at minimum, have shot down 1,200...
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