Recent content by J_Riley

Yes sir, saw one this morning, thanks much!

Interesting, I read about crew bailing out of a B-24 called Hot Rocks, and the forward guys slammed ammo boxes down on the nose wheel doors so they could get out. Maybe it was dramatized...

when I go to my profile, yes, it has my correct email

Sorry, I don't know how to fix this, I have updated my email in my profile, but all the "weekly digest" emails keep going to my old email address.

Yes, I am sure he would have done something completely different if he had known they were reading his messages. After Midway, he had to start to suspect...hmmm, American carriers showed up at Coral Sea, and a month later they are there, waiting for us, gotten past our sub picket lines, over...

One more case, perhaps, of a bad read of the enemy by Yamamoto. One of the big reasons behind split up forces, and the main body being so far back was Yamamoto thought if they knew the entire combined fleet was at Midway, the USN might just stay home and leave Midway to its fate, and of course...

Same source, pg 454 "Guard Force (Aleutians screen)" lists Ise, Hyuga, Fuso, Yamashiro Imperial Japanese Navy Battle Order - 1941 : BatDiv2(VAdm Shiro Takasu):Sect1: Hyuga/FltF,DF, Ise Sect2: Fuso, Yamashiro CombinedFleet.com Fuso Trom: 29...

I 100% believe this is what the Japanese believed, at least about the Aleutians. Having said that, did they have seaplanes at Marcus Island? Wake? How come they didn't detect the Doolittle Raiders?

I'm a little late to the game (also new here, hi!) so I will just try to hit a couple points. In the various reading I have done, a big part of having everyone spread out for Yamamoto was his thinking that if he brought the entire fleet en masse, the USN would stay home. That goes back to...

I'm Jason...been a WW2 fan for probably 30 years at this point, mostly PTO. Found this great resource and hoping to be able to add to my knowledge base. Originally from Canada, but been living on USA east coast for 20+ years Cheers

I always thought washing machine Charlie was a single engine float plane... Various aircraft were used, including ship or shore-based single-engine seaplanes, and, on occasion a two-engine airplane, probably a Betty bomber whose pilot had made sure his engines were out of synchronization. The...