How can we not rewrite history? - Page 3

hyperion2206 · 02-26-07, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Barkhorn1x

I REALLY do hope I am wrong. And, hey, I just spotted a new US a/c so who knows for sure what is in store?

Barkhorn.

You guys in the US will know it 1 week earlier.

Aimbot · 02-26-07, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

Well...I guess the simpliest forumlae is this.

Japan is involved in a total war with a nation with ten times her industrial capacity and the ability at some point to make atomic bombs, and this nation is only one of her many opponents. So, at some point after some test in the New Mexico desert in 1945, she's gonna lose.

The end. :p

Agreed. The only prayer the Japanese had was that the Americans would cow to them.

I hope I can spot the Yorktown in the sim. It's docked within walking distance of my apartment. :p

Torplexed · 02-26-07, 09:23 PM

Your Yorktown must be Yorktown II. The original was sunk at Midway. I think the US Navy got a sense of perverse glee naming new Essex class carriers after carriers that had already been sunk. Probably drove Japanese naval intelligence batty.

Another way to approach this problem would be to make contacts with major Japanese warships before 1944 extremely rare. Historically they were. US submarines only accounted for sinking one major Japanese warship before 1944. That was the heavy cruiser Kako sunk after the battle of Savo Island in 1942 by the S-44. By 1944, Japan's inevitable defeat was pretty much a done deal. Sink all you want...they're gonna lose anyway.

Sailor Steve · 02-27-07, 11:52 AM

Actually, his Yorktown would be Yorktown IV:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/10m.htm
Pic # 12

All of the early carriers were either named for famous American Battles (Lexington, Saratoga, Midway) or famous early American ships (Essex, Kearsarge, Enterprise).

Well, except the first one, Langley. She was named for the early aviation pioneer and first curator of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley.

02-26-07, 09:23 PM	#33
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Your Yorktown must be Yorktown II. The original was sunk at Midway. I think the US Navy got a sense of perverse glee naming new Essex class carriers after carriers that had already been sunk. Probably drove Japanese naval intelligence batty. Another way to approach this problem would be to make contacts with major Japanese warships before 1944 extremely rare. Historically they were. US submarines only accounted for sinking one major Japanese warship before 1944. That was the heavy cruiser Kako sunk after the battle of Savo Island in 1942 by the S-44. By 1944, Japan's inevitable defeat was pretty much a done deal. Sink all you want...they're gonna lose anyway. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

02-27-07, 11:52 AM	#34
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Actually, his Yorktown would be Yorktown IV: http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/10m.htm Pic # 12 All of the early carriers were either named for famous American Battles (Lexington, Saratoga, Midway) or famous early American ships (Essex, Kearsarge, Enterprise). Well, except the first one, Langley. She was named for the early aviation pioneer and first curator of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo