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Lord Koth posted:Well, didn't get on quite at ground floor for this LP, but close enough. And always fun watching Grey Hunter LPs, and him I'd like to sign up for the USS Dunlap, hopefully we will meet again!
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I'll claim the USS Whitney AD-4. Not the most impressive ship, but it's where my great-grandfather was stationed way back on December 7th, 1941. Please don't kill my great-grandpa, Grey! So, uh, did Oswald do it?
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(Or my grandfather, or my great-uncle, but I digress)
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Grandpachat: My maternal grandfather was an american paratrooper but never jumped into combat. He got a purple heart somehow and after the war he was terrified of flying, because he might have to jump. Had some crazy tattoo on his shoulder, as well.
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In 1944 the us developed closed loop aa guns - did they ever get deployed on a ship or even in the pacific? As an aside this time saw some really amazing work in control theory from both both bell labs and Norbert Weiner. Weiner extended control theory to become cybernetics, and the foundation of ai. He was a weird guy. He was Jewish and his wife owned a copy of Mein Kampf and was supposedly an anti Semite. He decided that computers were going to make workers obsolete and stopped doing new work for fear it would be misused.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:19
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I'd love to see a multiplayer move where the allies just scratch the garrison, lowering their AV, and then the soviets invade.
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Epicurius posted:Eri Hotta's "Japan, 1941" is also very good if you're interested in the internal dynamics of Japanese governmental decision making. Her book mostly focuses on the decision to go to war with the US,. Here's a shot in the dark and slightly OT - is there an equivalent for Victorian England? Amazon only yields crap about poetry, sexuality, and barely reviewed surveys of the period. How the heck did they manage a world spanning empire? Doesn't help that I'm not a Brit.
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dear loving lord
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It was almost exactly a Battle of the Coral Sea that turned out decisively in favor of Japan, hence the scratch one flattop reference. Now we'll see if having one more CV makes a difference in his midway! E: wrong about where the wasp was lost! Bozart fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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That article is a great read. By 1945 the US was 50% of global GNP and was growing at 15% per annum. It was growing by more than Japan's total GNP every year.
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Just a reminder of the approximate number of carriers coming from the US over the next few years... (from http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm not WITP, but it should be somewhere in the neighborhood of right?)pre:United States CV/CVL/CVE BB CA/CL DD Escorts Subs 1941 - 2 1 2 - 2 1942 18 4 8 82 - 34 1943 65 2 11 128 298 55 1944 45 2 14 74 194 81 1945 13 - 14 63 6 31 Total 141 10 48 349 498 203 Japan CV/CVL/CVE BB CA/CL DD Escorts Subs 1941 6 1 - - ? - 1942 4 1 4 10 ? 61 1943 2 - 3 12 ? 37 1944 5 - 2 24 ? 39 1945 - - - 17 ? 30 Total 17 2 9 63 ? 167
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:how do you post this list and not include Patton He was certainly vain but his relationship to Bradley was more complicated, when Bradley was serving under him to keep tabs on Patton for Eisenhower, Patton certainly knew what was up, but maybe he was so vain he didn't give an f?
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glynnenstein posted:Patton was certainly anti-semitic and apparently didn't approve of prosecuting Nazis for war crimes. I dunno if he was entirely on board with Nazis exactly, but he made statements that suggest he viewed them as just another political option not unlike making the choice between Democrat or Republican. His letters home apparently are full of all sorts of terrible stuff. https://www.amazon.com/Patton-Papers-1940-1945-Martin-Blumenson/dp/0306807173 that book posted:During the immediate postwar months of the Occupation, he could see that transportation was restored, that sanitation was practiced, that food was distributed, that heat was provided, that housing was rehabilitated. But the subtle nuances of political dialogue were beyond him. What did he care about German political parties? Why couldn't everyone forget the war and Nazism, and settle down to building a Germany that resembled his conception of America? So he was more really self centered than ok with nazis.
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Or actually take port moresby?
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Yeah there was basically no way the allies would win.
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Grandpachat: one of mine didn't serve for some reason, drove trucks around NYC. The other was a paratrooper, never jumped into combat, got a purple heart during a glider landing, and was terrified of going on planes for the rest of his life.
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Oddly the few japanese POWs were treated better than the interned japanese americans because the military treated POWs well but the civilian administration didn't. Or at least that's what NPR told me!
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May 2, 2017 12:29
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wukkar posted:Did the Italian navy sink goddamn anything that wasn't Italian? Technically they sunk a few british mines?
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May 4, 2017 20:40
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Wow that sure was a lot of local grudges, just a few bad apples killing 50,000 people I guess
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May 7, 2017 15:21
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I joined these forums and then found out im gay
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Decoy Badger posted:Trap sprung I guess, but the Avro Arrow really wasn't superior and it definitely wasn't cheaper. It was a massive clusterfuck of constantly inflating costs, with unit prices increasing almost 1000% over the development cycle, bespoke Canada-only critical parts (like the missiles, engines, radar), and political fuckery. On top of that the RCAF insisted on so many special adaptations that made the plane not only overly expensive, but also suitable only for Scandinavian air forces. Think the F-35 development cycle except worse, except that all the political mud-slinging made it falsely seem like a successful development program even to today. b-but my military industrial!!
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the katori (or whatev)
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