Recent content by JoeB

It would be much more graceful for you to admit you missed the reference to Triumph in my original post, which you pretty obviously did, rather than come up with some convoluted comeback like that to still try to say I was omitting something. Also I would repeat that it's common knowledge anyway...

1. I can easily accept that particular sources don't allow full reproduction, but with all frankness have more trouble accepting that you couldn't 'fair use' quote the relevant passages. I'll leave it at that for now as far as that one piece of evidence; without really knowing it it's impossible...

1. No you've omitted to read my entire post before responding to it, since it clearly mentioned the name of the ship, Triumph, and anyway I view it as a matter of common knowledge that all FAA/RAN ops in Korea were from Colossus class ships. 2. First I'm not at all sure that's true, but...

The only version of that account I've seen simply states the FAA claims from FAA POV, 7 Japanese a/c downed, then states that [Nakamura] testified to have seen Hockley alive and turned him over to others, not that Nakamura, as an air warden on the ground, somehow knew the exact loss causes of...

1. But what actual evidence did they find of more Japanese losses than mentioned in the sources I named, Hata's 'August 15 book' and Maru series accounts of the various JNAF fighter units? You don't give any. 2. I didn't give any characteriziation of the 302nd. And the only Japanese pilot...

To clarify that quote, when 800 Sdn finished its tour in Korea (fall 1950, not after the war) and peacetime flying restrictions were reinstated, all but 3 a/c required such repair. That's from some Alfred Price article, a reliable author generally but I don't know anything else about it. OTOH...

Like most things to do with 'Spitfire/Seafire' it's a bunch of quite different airplanes under a single 'brand name'. The early Seafires were ersatz adaptations w/ only middling performance compared to top line land based fighters they might meet, and serious limitations as carrier planes...

Here's a couple of more things I found, for Navy shimpu-tai/kamikaze* attacks. In "Kamikaze Attacks of WWII: A Complete History..." by Robin L Reilly, pg 190 it gives a total of Navy special attack sorties in spring-summer '45 as follows: 2/14-3/5: 259 3/26-5/4: 1,207 5/5-6/22: 368...

This was posted earlier, quite a bit lower number: " INTERROGATION NAV NO. 6 USSBS NO. 40 THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR THE KAMIKAZE CORPS IN PHILIPPINES AND OKINAWA TOKYO 18 October 1945 Interrogation of: Captain FUCHIDA, Mitsuo, IJN, a naval aviator since 1928. Q. How many Kamikaze...

1. Maybe you missed where I said 'late war' which makes that point rather redundant. I've read Chinn many times, thanks. 2. So why is this point always brought up as if of any significance? It's absurd to be discussing alongside something of the significance of the A-bomb (aside from 'who...

1. I'd dispute that other full power catridge semi-auto's were inherently any cheaper to make than the Garand. Of course submachineguns were, and to a lesser degree 'intermediate cartridge' weapons like MP44 and Soviet SKS and AK postwar. But other major countries went to semi-auto's (or...

A fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis in 1973 destroyed the personnel records for 80% of Army (which would include USAAF) personnel discharged between 1912 and 1960. There was no complete duplicate set of those files anywhere else. However, if somebody claimed to be a...

Even a revolutionary fighter manufactured in too large numbers to make this list, the Me-262 (seems to be cut off generally below 1,000, though more Baltimores than that, or Me262's, were produced), didn't really make a big impact on the war in the end. A conventional fighter built in small...

Look at the later pictures of the plane's smoke trail after it hit, not the actual photo's of the plane still in flight. It's definitely the same event; and the angle is pretty clear from that smoke trail. As was mentioned in another post, suicide a/c usually approached from at most moderate...

You can see the angle in this picture montage video, from the smoke trail after it hit, around 28 seconds in, not so steep: Kamikaze Pilot Strikes USS Essex - November 25, 1944 The tail number of the a/c is visible identifying it as that flown by Yoshinori Yamaguchi of the Yoshino Special...