To: katana
[“Massing”? Battles of Coral Sea and Midway saw “massed” carriers, within sight of each other, both sides, with hundreds of nautical miles between the two fleets]
They were visible from ship to ship? I seriously doubt *anything* is visible from hundreds of miles away that isn’t some massive miles-long fortification or a mountain. Even in low earth orbit (~90 miles), the Great Wall is only visible (without the observer being told that it is a fortification) the aid of a telescope.
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/can-the-great-wall-of-china-really-be-seen-from-space/
22 posted on
06/15/2020 2:30:08 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei
A poorly written sentence. The individual ships of each side could see their fellow carriers and task forces, but the opposing fleets were hundreds of miles apart.
At least that is how I interpreted that muddled mess.
27 posted on
06/15/2020 2:59:26 PM PDT by
Don W
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To: Zhang Fei
Within each respective fleet, American and Japanese. Which is why one flight of US dive bombers was able to sink all four Japanese carriers. They were all gathered, well, in a fleet. Probably will never happen again. All your eggs in one basket, etc.
30 posted on
06/15/2020 3:55:13 PM PDT by
katana
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