Thanks. I have the Japanese force composition too. I'm working with what was described in the books for this particular battle and adding a little more to them. Namely giving the American force a cruiser and the other escort carrier (their combined aircraft would at amount to a full strike package from a normal fleet carrier).
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^^^ - My draft for the Japanese carrier force in the books facing off the against the US force off Hawaii.
I am pretty sure that the Japanese had a single fleet carrier, unless I am thinking of the wrong battle.
You are technically correct, yes. However, the problem is that even after going over this specific section, its not entirely clear what kind of carrier the Japanese have in this battle. Its vaguely implied that its possibly the same carrier that escaped damage in the Battle for Midway in 1941 (meaning it could probably be a fleet carrier), but Turtledove doesn't elaborate more than that. Moreover he doesn't give much of a hint about the escorting force either. So I lot of this is filling in gaps in a reasonable way.
In this case, I believe the Japanese would not send the same carrier force to this battle... especially a force that, after a year, would choose not to reinforce it with another carrier. It doesn't make sense to me that this force would operate a carrier by itself when it has all the time and to get reinforcements. In this battle from the book, I decided to slightly modify the force by giving the Japanese 2 converted light carriers to face off against 2 US escort carriers (this is different from the US one escort carrier vs. one un-defined IJN carrier from the book).
I'm not saying that it was the same carrier, and i didn't really see the implication of that either in the book. I don't even know where you got that idea honestly since it makes no sense anyway. If I had to make a military assessment on why the Japanese only had a single carrier operating near Midway, it was because the IJN shifted their focus to going after the British territories in Asia in 1942, while leaving a screening force to protect their occupation at Midway since neither side was able to make big offensive moves against the other.
Could be a White Russian family that fled to the Confederacy as the CSA has proved itself anti-communist due to the Red rebellions of 1916. By the time the family established itself in the South, the Civil War in Russia ended but the family didn’t want to go back and be poor peasants so instead stayed in the CSA.
I know, but in the chaos and bloodshed, it is likely a few ten thousand immigrated away from Russia to other, more stable nations. With the CSA being crushed economically and a lot of white men dead from the war, they probably begged any white immigrants to move there to replenish the population and to help fill in the workforce.
Wasn’t St. Petersburg or Petrograd the Capitol of Russia at the time?
Maybe the Russian is a mercenary? That's feasible considering as long as there was war, there have been people willing to fight for money.
