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My maternal great-grandfather enlisted in the cavalry in 1912 and chased Pancho Villa in Mexico before going to France for World War I. He received a commission either juuuust after or juuuuust before Pearl Harbor and went to Europe with most of his sons for World War II, returning home a major. My paternal grandfather was turned down for service in World War II, can't remember the reason why.
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fredleander posted:The official historian (Morrison) is actually quite lenient with him.... [citation needed]
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Jan 14, 2016 20:36
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HerraS posted:To be fair you wouldn't have gotten further than the part where he calls Sealion a "brilliant jewel of military planning, just as one would expect from the German ubermensch!" without a hint of irony. Wait, you mean he was serious?
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Jan 14, 2016 22:53
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fredleander posted:Emil "Bud" Anderson Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson does not go by his middle name. In fact, you'd actually have to do some digging to discover that his middle name is Emil, because he's commonly known as "Clarence E. 'Bud'" or "C.E. 'Bud'" Anderson, yet somehow despite this you still got his name wrong. Everything I've ever seen you write seems to have a rather half-assed approach to detail and you never cite sources. It is objective fact that anything you say needs to be treated with suspicion, if not outright scorn.
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Jan 19, 2016 21:15
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fredleander posted:"Clarence" is so.......womanly....  Bitches leave.
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Jan 19, 2016 22:53
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fredleander posted:After you.....dear.... Wow, okay, so you've never seen a movie either. At any rate, changing someone's name to suit your own tastes hardly inspires confidence in someone as a reliable source of information. So either you are, in fact, dumb enough to think that you can remain credible after deciding on your own to refer to a known figure by a name that nobody else on the planet refers to him or you made up an excuse to cover up the fact that you can't be bothered to fact check enough to get someone's name right. When confronted with evidence that you are not the credible historian you think you are, you tend to just ignore it and point out that you're a credible historian because you've written books and articles. So has David Irving.
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Jan 19, 2016 23:13
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....you ever fired a Desert Eagle..?...I have. A silencer on that gun - how idiotic. You want references..?
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fredleander posted:Please don't use my name. Real names are not popular here. Too much reality, I suppose.... You are quite literally the dumbest person I've ever come across, and I was in the army with a bunch of dudes from Mississippi.
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Jan 29, 2016 09:33
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fredleander posted:I had a harder time in a peacetime military than guys who literally went without pants in the jungle because they had the shits so bad they didn't have time to drop trou, had to fight the Japanese in that condition, and suffered massive casualties. Because being cold and uncomfortable is hell, man. Tell us more.
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Jan 29, 2016 23:08
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Jobbo_Fett posted:SM.79, the Beretta pistols had a good reputation afaik, manned torpedos, the Piaggio P.108, wearing a feather in their cap Also the Carcano carbine. There are some that say that its performance was magic. Others say it was mindblowing.
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Aug 28, 2016 18:52
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Eh, I hate the clip/magazine it has, and the 6.5mm cartridge is underpowered compared to other rounds. Could just be me though I admit that the clip system had is a bit of a Dealey-breaker, but I'm sure guys on the receiving end of the 6.5mm round didn't find its performance particularly underpowered. Every man Jack of them. Something about it would just make them snap back. And to the left. Edit: I mean, it sure as gently caress wasn't just a bundle of curtain rods. McNally fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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Aug 28, 2016 19:16
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Fair enough. 
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Aug 28, 2016 19:42
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Considering how useless US torpedoes are in the early stages of the war, is there any reason why an Allied player should use their American subs at all for the first two years or so? Reconnaissance?
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Jan 16, 2017 19:18
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HannibalBarca posted:excellent, but what about the balloon bombs? Man, not even close. The balloons themselves were designed to maintain altitude, were able to automatically sever ballast, vent hydrogen if it became overpressured, etc. Then account for the cost of the bombs. Multiply that by nearly 10,000. They killed slightly over six people with them: A pregnant woman and five children.
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Mar 14, 2017 17:54
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Lord Koth posted:To add animal cruelty alongside comedic ideas, there was also Project X-Ray. Also known as the project designed around testing the concept of dropping bombs filled with thousands of bats carrying small incendiaries over Japanese cities, where they would then theoretically roost in buildings. It had merely cost $2 million by the time it was canceled - not for being silly, but rather because it wouldn't be ready before nuclear bombs were. They DID manage to accidentally incinerate a test range though! Also a general's car.
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Mar 15, 2017 16:59
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Grey Hunter posted:Nope, what they had was a guy who climbed inside the AA shell and manually detonated it at the time he thought it would do the most damage. The worst part is that I can't tell if this is a joke or not. That absolutely sounds like late war Japan. Edit: "The project continued even after testing revealed that the human fuze was usually killed when the gun was fired. The only known kill of the type 69 antiaircraft shell came on July 22, 1945, when one flew into a flock of geese." McNally fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Apr 18, 2017 16:47
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aphid_licker posted:What, ballpark, is the daily production of Liberators? Wikipedia says they produced 19,256 from 1940 to 1945. To simplify this, I'll just assume they produced them from January 1, 1940 to December 31, 1945. So 365 x 4 + 2 (1940 and 1944 were leap years) = 1,827 production days 19,256 / 1,827 = 10.54 Liberators per day
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Apr 20, 2017 21:21
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megane posted:For comparison, BB Royal Sovereign is about twice as long and 15 times as heavy as I-21. Yes, but how does it compare to a six foot tall person?
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Apr 22, 2017 21:43
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sullat posted:It's kind of hard to keep losses secret unless you, I don't know, keep the ship's survivors locked away without letting them talk to their family and friends. Didn't they basically do exactly that with ships they wanted the loss of kept quiet? Sending survivors to random places in the middle of the Pacific?
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Apr 23, 2017 22:13
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Comstar posted:So there are now MULTIPLE subs in Tokyo Harbour sinking ships within sight of the Imperial Palace? Someone's playing a game of Silent Hunter 4. In SH4 I infiltrated a Japanese harbor, dodging the warship patrolling the entrance, and sank the merchant ships at dock. On my way out, out of curiosity, I crept past at periscope depth to see what the warship patrolling the entrance was. Shokaku-class aircraft carrier. That's when my patrol went from good to great.
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Aug 28, 2017 16:46
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This thread has me playing Silent Hunter IV again. Last night I hit a convoy off Formosa and started north to patrol the Formosa Strait and hit a large task force. Two fleet carriers, two escort carriers, a heavy cruiser, and some destroyers. I sank both fleet carriers and I survived. The game crashed as I was returning to Pearl Harbor. D: I have a save game to go back to, but the game is crashing EVERY time I return to Pearl Harbor.
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Sep 8, 2017 02:46
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Murgos posted:Seeing that pic of the Aurora makes me wonder if there are any pre-dreadnaught battleships hanging around anywhere as museums? One. efb, maybe I should refresh before replying next time.
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Sep 13, 2017 00:00
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I wonder how many dolphins get killed when Grey tries to catch Tuna.
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Oct 19, 2017 05:25
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:So like, how many liberty ships does a cruiser sortie need to kill to make a dent in their weekly production? Quick math (2710 built/4 years/12 months/4.5 weeks) tells me that the US built an average of about 12.5 a week, so....
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Nov 25, 2017 01:24
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Ron Jeremy posted:I think we should forget this day happened and save scum the gently caress out of that battle. I'd be cool with an bonus post where he does that until he wins, just to see a) how many times it takes for that to happen b) what that would look like
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Dec 3, 2017 21:58
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Jobbo_Fett posted:We've never even seen the Hermes... The game seems to think otherwise.
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Jan 20, 2018 23:29
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Woodchip posted:Reload, I bet the surface support shows up tomorrow. "Because the transports are slower than our warships, we'll give them a head start and then catch up to them. ... Where are my keys?"
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Jan 22, 2018 00:52
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Is TROMP the sound it made when the bombs hit?
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Jan 24, 2018 18:01
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Kills aren't and have never been assigned to planes, they're assigned to pilots. Pilots are assigned planes, which is why they get to name them and write their names on the side-however, just because a pilot is assigned a plane doesn't mean he's going to be the one who always flies it, which is where I think the confusion is coming from. Once air to air kills started becoming less common kills have, in fact, been assigned to individual planes. There are USAF F-15s wearing kill markings from the Gulf War and Bosnia even though their pilots have long since moved on to other things.
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Mar 6, 2018 19:55
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wedgekree posted:... why are IJN PT Boats worth like ten points and USN ones worth one? IJN PT boats can make it all the way to the English Channel. Just ask the Russians.
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Mar 28, 2018 22:10
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Grey Hunter posted:High operational losses are new pilots flying of carriers. In my head, it's because the new pilots are experiencing "first solo" and "first carrier landing" on the same sortie.
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Mar 31, 2018 19:21
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Musashi was expressly designed to fight two Yamashiro equivalents at the same time. And if it took 14 shell hits to sink Yamashiro, then it'll take at least 28 to sink Musashi! 
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Apr 10, 2018 23:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:If I'm not mistaken this is the same kind of legalistic jiu-jitsu that leads you calling the Admiral Kuznetsov-class an "aviation cruiser" so you can rules-lawyer your way through the Bosphorus without violating an international treaty The CV designation that our carriers use literally means "aviation cruiser." Cruiser, voler.
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Apr 19, 2018 21:06
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Bold Robot posted:That is a lot of political points. Not sure how much stuff costs for Japan but you could buy like 4 US divisions for that. It's enough for Japan to buy 4 US divisions, oddly enough. But delivery isn't included, you'd have to recover them off the ocean floor yourself.
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Apr 20, 2018 21:23
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I'm hoping the carriers get too close to a shore battery and get blown to hell. It's about the only thing we haven't seen yet.
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Apr 21, 2018 10:38
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Didn't we sink Iowa? Why isn't it on the list?
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May 2, 2018 06:34
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Send the Kido Butai on a surprise raid on Pearl Harbor! They won't expect such an audatious raid a second time around so late into the war, how could it fail? Yes, do this.
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May 2, 2018 23:02
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CannonFodder posted:If both TFs send all their planes to attack and don't have any left to protect, then yes all the ships sink and then probably all the planes end up ditching in the ocean. This would cripple both navies and the war would probably last until late 1946 when the game ends on time. Why would losing all the carriers cripple the navy? I mean, yeah, it would hurt, but if this war has taught us anything it's that the battleship is the undisputed ruler of the seas.
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I'm calling it now: Grey's carriers get smashed by a third carrier none of his inexperienced pilots even saw.
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:I think the Yamato and the other big guns are in repairs for the time being, so this is unlikely. I think they mean the American battleships.
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