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The USN carrier forces were quite able to smash Nippon industry
I don't know what that has to do with USN Strategic Bombing Capability. By late 1945 there was no Japanese Navy so sure a battleship could park itself off shore and blast away. What about targets out of the range of the ships? I think you're confusing things.The USN was so confident by 1945, that it was using its battlewagon artillery to bombard Japanese industrial targets.
And that was late in the war - the USN wasn't going to do that 6 months earlier.No I'm not, the USN may have run out of Japanese ships to sink, but they wanted both to provoke defensive air battles from the Japanese, to waste them & to reduce their war making capacity, hitting all kinds of infrastructure targets also.
Although a crushing blow to Japanese morale, the bombardment of the Japanese mainland was a matter of convenience. There was still industrial centers out of the range of the battleship's guns.The USN 1st worked over the Nippon home islands in Feb 1945, after taking Iwo Jima, & before Okinawa
At the 11th hour and again, out of convenience.Ta FBJ, strategic, for sure.
What, are we back to B-29s again? Does that same statement not also apply to the nukes?
Name oneSome of those industrial targets hit were out of B-29 range, to be fair.
Good - you actually read my post!FBJ, check the 2nd last sentence of the 2nd paragraph of the insert in your post # 10.
"...since they were outside the range..."
What would've stopped them 6 months earlier was that they were busy invading Iwo Jima.
Have you ever been to those places or seen them on a map??? If you're smart you'll answer you're own question.As I noted earlier, the USN did work over Nippon in Feb 1945, between the Iwo, & Okinawa jobs.
( when it was "convenient", & why not).
In July, one month before the war's end.The USN was so confident by 1945, that it was using its battlewagon artillery to bombard Japanese industrial targets.
In July, one month before the war's end.The USN 1st worked over the Nippon home islands in Feb 1945, after taking Iwo Jima, & before Okinawa
Japan still had a considerable amount of assets to deal with during the Iwo Jima/Okinawa time frame.What would've stopped them 6 months earlier was that they were busy invading Iwo Jima.
In July, one month before the war's end.As I noted earlier, the USN did work over Nippon in Feb 1945, between the Iwo, & Okinawa jobs.
( when it was "convenient", & why not).
Negative, read a few history books and come back to the discussion.Wrong.. wrong & wrong - the USN initially blitzed Nippon in Feb 1945, 6 months earlier..
Don't trifle with me, ass-clown.Wanna put a buck on the barrel head G-G?
You still owe me for being wrong about the Merlin-Meteor mill..
yes, azz-wipe...she strayed too close to the home island and nearly got her ass handed to her by Japanese forces, right?Clown-as better check the whereabouts of USS Franklin in early March 1945, when she got hit real bad...
First off, NO battleship shelled the mainland...max. range is 27 miles, 25 optimum...so stick your "smirk" up your chute and STFU.The battlewagons accompanied the carriers.. aircraft were the USN's primary offensive weapon back in `45.
Still well before July though huh, somebody done got his smirk as-wiped (50 miles is close-as).
( & one bomb in the right spot & the carrier will burn)..
Edit: Pointing out that war is dangerous, esp' when you carry bulk av-gas aboard ship.
So nearly sinking the Franklin is "couldn't do much?"Just cant admit when you are wrong, huh G-G, & then try & weasel out by qualifying which weapons were used..
If the Nippon forces couldn't do much to the USN in Feb/March, off the coast then why would they in July.
That was why the big guns moved in..
ok, let's give you the benefit of the doubt.Don't know what pictures you are viewing.. But the Nippon forces couldn't even finish off the Franklin,
even when she was well within reach, since the USN had them in hand, & they were a squeezing 'em, hard..