First Carrier Landing

 

1. Then the Japanese showed us how it’s done.

   Posted by Oink       03/25/2006  at  06:45 PM  



2. Not quite ....

   http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm

   Posted by The Skipper       03/25/2006  at  07:32 PM  



3. A helluva battle—a stupendous victory due to codebreaking, tactics, balls, and a good dollop of dumb luck. But the Japanese had got there furstest with the mostest six months earlier.  Also sank two unescorted British battleships near Singapore.

   “How could the Japs attack Pearl Harbor—it’s five thousand miles from Japan!!??”

   Posted by Oink       03/25/2006  at  08:05 PM  



4. Not necessarily, oh porcine piggy. The US Navy had planned for a Japanese attack for years before Pearl Harbor.

   http://www.avalanchepress.com/gameNPO.html

   Why do you think Pearl was full of outdated battleships but the carriers were all out to sea? FDR knew ahead of time. Stoopid, farging Democrats. It was the only way to get the US sucked into WWII. Even OldCatMan knew what was going on and dodged the draft by heading to the hills of Colorado. True story!

    

   Posted by The Skipper       03/25/2006  at  10:39 PM  



5. Oink you seem to be overlooking Taranto where the British showed the Japanese just what naval airpower could achieve. Unfortunately they learned the lesson too well!

   Posted by LyndonB       03/26/2006  at  04:19 AM  



6. Here’s a brief rundown.

   http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3942

   Posted by LyndonB       03/26/2006  at  04:24 AM  



7. Good info LBJ. With every “new thing” there is the problem of distinguishing a Gee-Gaw from a significant technological advance. (A problem with computers, also eh?) The Japanese got it and acted on it with airpower. They have been great, not necessarily at inventing, but at applying new stuff.

   Posted by Oink       03/26/2006  at  09:44 AM  



8. Vietnam?! And here all this time I thought you actually dodged the Civil War draft, OCM. My bad.

   

   Posted by Jester       03/26/2006  at  12:17 PM  



9. OCM: My German guests were fascinated when I would show them a church in the Johnson’s Woods Addition to Indianapolis, “150 years ago, that was a bear den.” In Germany “old” starts at 500 years.

   Posted by Oink       03/26/2006  at  01:50 PM  



10. Looking at the picture the song Danger Zone from Top Gun hardly seems Appropriate but then again If not for those first steps there wouldn’t have been any planes flying off of carrier decks

    Posted by Archangel       03/26/2006  at  02:33 PM  



11. http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/mitch.html

    Angel et al: Here’s some information about Billy Mitchell, and early advocate of air war.  He was court martialed for insubordination; & he was right. If he hadn’t been an obnoxious, egotistical, pain in the ass he might have convinced someone.

    Posted by Oink       03/26/2006  at  03:05 PM  

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