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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
Can anyone find a case where a carrier in combat was operational in any state other than chaos?
Are you talking organized chaos or pure chaos? The USN by 1944 was regularly operating in a state of organized chaos....
Tracy White Researcher@Large
bondoman Can anyone find a case where a carrier in combat was operational in any state other than chaos?
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