[kearnyirish2]

How did you make out in the storm?

An incredible aspect of the carrier war in the Pacific in contrast to the battleship encounters of WWI is that no enemy carriers were ever within sight of each other. The distances involved in the Pacific War are mind-boggling; the Japanese could re-supply isolated island garrisons with subs because their subs had to be made so much larger than U-boats (to cover much larger distances).

[jmacusa]

Hey kearny! Not bad at all down here on The Jersey Shore. Was more bluster than anything else. How about you? Yes WW2 in the Pacific was certainly the most wide ranging. Considering the Pacific Ocean covers some 12 million square miles. No other country's navy could do the job and rose to the challenge as did ours. The Japanese never fully developed a convoy system that could adequately supply their forces and the reality and the Japanese code of the warrior meant for those troops on those islands that theirs was a one way trip. They were basically there to die for the Emperor. Some of them didn't give up for years after the war ended.