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I'm seeing a bigger problem with Ryujo & the others: they were too slow. How do they keep up even at the K.B.'s cruising speed? How'd you like to be the engineroom gang having to keep them at top speed for a week straight?:eek:

Ryujo is faster than Kaga. (Not a lot faster, and top speed isn't cruising speed). Zuiho is the same speed as Kaga.

With Kaga going along, speed isn't the issue. Range, seahandling and is it worth the trouble of bringing them are bigger issues.

on edit: Too slow! Me, not Ryujo.
 
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I'm seeing a bigger problem with Ryujo & the others: they were too slow. How do they keep up even at the K.B.'s cruising speed? How'd you like to be the engineroom gang having to keep them at top speed for a week straight?:eek:

Transit speed across the North Pacific averaged about 14kt (the slowest ship was one of the tankers, 16kt). Fastest sustained speed was 26kt on egress, which Ryujo and Zuiho could handle. If under attack or launching, speed might creep up to 30kt-32kt on some ships, but that's nothing a formation couldn't handle.
 
All hail the great Job Parshall - it really is ridiculous that he should have to defend his work against these silly rants.

Dunno on that one. That debate ain't over. Anyways, a good discussion here including Tony Tully, Jon Parshall and myself,

http://www.j-aircraft.org/smf/index.php?topic=12042.0

During that discussion, I come up with a new theory on the Fateful Five Minutes. That led to an original 1951 Fuchida Japanese edition being shipped to the USA for translation. The research on that front is in this thread here,

http://www.j-aircraft.org/smf/index.php?topic=12172.0
 
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