Posted on 06/03/2016 8:35:30 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
How many females, homosexuals, and transsexuals will be among the ship’s company?
Where will they get their raw materials when they run out? China apparently is consuming them at staggering amounts. African raw materials won't last forever. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6b692ec-5e2f-11e5-a28b-50226830d644.html#axzz4AZxeRONx
Zero, of course.
Don't you know that there AREN'T ANY over there? Lol. No one in his/her right mind would ever admit to that shameful lifestyle because HIS/HER family would be the ones to suffer.
The only US submarine of note at the Midway battle was the Nautilus, regardless of Admiral Nagumo's fears. Plus, American torpedoes were pieces of crap the first two years of the war. They seldom hit anything, and many sub patrols came back to base having the same performance that the pre-1020 bomber/attack/torpedo planes had on Japanese ships that day, which is to say hapless, worthless, and dealing no damage whatever. American expertise in carrier battle tactics were not in the same league as the Imperial Navy's co-ordinated assaults.
Additionally, Japanese battle doctrine was weighted strongly to offense, not defense, which worked with great success pre-Coral Sea, but ultimately doomed them.
They also lost a carrier at Coral Sea that should have been part of the MI attack, in addition to the carrier forces sent to attack the Aleutian Islands which was a silly game for a silly reward. These two albatrosses were foisted on Yamamoto as conditions for approving the MI attack, but he made little objection. Rather than concentrate massed forces, which Japanese military doctrine dictated, this "shotgun" approach diluted the Main Force was another massive mistake.
This never would have happened. Had Midway been lost, Japan could never have invaded and occupied Hawaii. They did not have the transport ability to keep such a captured garrison supplied, especially having to bring the supplies from half a world away in a submarine infested ocean.
Additionally, the most powerful nation on the planet with unmatched productive capacity would never negotiate with a smaller country which had launched a sneak attack such as Pearl Harbor.
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Even if we'd lost all three carriers at Midway we would have equaled the Japanese in late 43 and surpassed them in 44. This does not count the escort carriers.
And consider we began to slow carrier production in 45 as we knew we were going to win the war.
At the end of the war, the US had 27 aircraft carriers.
I know. We kicked tail.
Aircraft carriers seem to be putting all the eggs in one vulnerable basket. I would think they would all be gone a few days into a serious war. Strafing wogs in gunboat diplomacy is one thing. Against a first or second tier power, would they really last that long?
For me and my brother it gave some hope for the safe return of my dad (Marine) from the South Pacific and our mother from the 16 hour a day job in a defense factory.
We entered the war with six fleet carriers, two in the Atlantic and four in the Pacific, and soon transferred one from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The Japanese thought they had sunk two at Coral Sea, with a third in dry dock following Wake Island. This left us with two, they thought. The main purpose of their attack on Midway was to draw out the American fleet and destroy what remained of it.
They had some problems amassing their own forces, with the attack on the Aleutians and losses - including pilots and aircraft - at Coral Sea. For lack of pilots and aircraft, it was an easy decision for them to leave one of their fleet carriers in dry dock and send “only” four to Midway. Still, four flattops should have been enough.
In large measure, we won the Battle of Midway because the Yorktown was quickly returned to service, giving us three flattops.
The greatest factor was possibly our intelligence operations.
Other key ingredients were the failure of Operation K, Nagumo’s refusal to commit fighter planes to search missions,
and not knowing where American forces were or how many carriers we had deployed.
The late war pictures of Task Force 58 are breathtaking.
https://afatherswarstorynevertold.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/highflight-operationa-go8.jpg
By my informal count the US produced for WWII:
Light carriers, such as the USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) which participated in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, also included a young pilot named George Bush who was later shot down doing ground attacks over Chichijima.
Even smaller escort carriers were capable of combat, for example: providing air support for ground troops at Leyte Gulf.
An escort carrier task group also defeated a Japanese force of battle ships & cruisers off Samar.
Depending on how you count, other reports vary and this source says:
That would make 29 CVs & CVLs built, which would not seem to include the seven (or eight) already in service on December 7, 1941.
Actually, on December 7, 1941 there were seven fleet carriers plus two, in effect, escort carriers.
Of those, in the Pacific:
In the Atlantic:
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