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WHAT'S ODD ABOUT THIS? - 10/28/2003 11:45:43 PM

Mike Scholl

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[QUOTE=Zeta16]The information is from Operation Pacific (The Royal Navy's War Aganist Japan) by Edwyn Gray. Gray says, "Fraser wanted the Royal Navy to be in at the kill when Japan finally fell, despite Admiral King's equal determination to keep the Limeys out of the picture so that the US Navy should have the sole honour and glory of destroying the Japanese Navy and avenging Pearl Harbor."

Also in the book it talks about how the British Navy was not allowed to use American bulk supplies except for bulk fuel supplies because of King's orders. Also that British ships were not allowed to make Major repairs at US advanced fleet bases like American ships were.

I understand something like this would be to hard to put into a game, but maybe Something like British ships could only get ammo reload from their bases or their own supply ships and that their ships could not be repaired at any place except Oz, US mainland, India, and in home ports.[/QUOTE]

King was an Anglo-phobe, but the reason the Brit's needed their own "fleet train"
was because they used different ammunition and spares. Hard to stuff a US
5" round into a British 4.7" or 4.5" gun. The Brits were there, though by then
it hardly mattered. If I remember right the British Pacific Fleet wound up as
TF 58.7 of the US Pacific Fleet. Ernie King's "druthers" hardly need or deserve
game representation.

(in reply to Zeta16)