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Carrier warfare in the Pacific...

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  • Member since
    August 2006
  • From: Bloomsburg PA
Posted by Dr. Hu on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:00 PM

First, the delay in launching the Tone's float plane led to the discovery  of the US task force an hour earlier than it would have had the plane launched on time. That the second strike on Midway would have launched before the discovery of the US task force so that an armed strike force and excess ordinance would not have been on the flight decks of the Japanese carriers. Possible leading to the survival of some of the Japanese carriers and a race between the US and Japanese on which one could recover rearm and relaunch first. Also the rearming process was much more complicated than most sources believed  and took more time than is usually allowed. He used a significant number of Japanese sources including interviews of several enlisted personnel responsible for the rearming as well as US sources.  He makes a strong case for his arguments. I enjoyed the mental exercise. It's a good read.

 

Jack

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    March 2007
  • From: Carmel, CA
Posted by bondoman on Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:25 AM

Can anyone find a case where a carrier in combat was operational in any state other than chaos?

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    August 2005
  • From: EG48
Posted by Tracy White on Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:27 AM

Are you talking organized chaos or pure chaos? The USN by 1944 was regularly operating in a state of organized chaos....

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:55 AM

bondoman

Can anyone find a case where a carrier in combat was operational in any state other than chaos?

No...

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