To: Homer_J_Simpson
John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
3 posted on
06/05/2012 4:25:08 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
U.S. Isle is Bombed (by Robert Trumbull, first-time contributor, and Charles Hurd) – 2
Submarine Sinks 3 Japanese Ships – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Heydrich is Dead; Czech Toll at 178 (Brigham) – 4
Planes Pound Axis Units in Libya; British Recapture a Strong Point (Levy) – 5-6
Reporter Yielded by Italy to Reich (Denny) – 6-7
War’s New Pacific Phase (Baldwin) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 11-13
4 posted on
06/05/2012 4:26:49 AM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
SORYU and HIRYU were not ‘light carriers’. They were fleet carriers.
9 posted on
06/05/2012 6:27:11 AM PDT by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Amazing that an Admiral would go down with the ship - I don’t think I ever knew that. I suppose that happened elsewhere as well. Why I can understand the reasoning, it seems as though it would have been better for the Japs for top guys like this to live to fight another day. Unless of course he WAS a really bad Admiral. But I don’t think that was the case.
I wonder how many of them did this, and if they had lived would the Japs have had more success later on?
16 posted on
06/05/2012 3:06:50 PM PDT by
21twelve
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