themattcurtis -> Why you don't launch at dusk (6/12/2007 3:27:08 PM)
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Folks having been reporting on their experiences playing the Coral Sea scenario. Just wanted to offer this paragraph from John Toland's "The Rising Sun": "Takagi, aboard a heavy cruiser, signaled Rear Admiral Tadaichi Hara, commander of the two carriers: CAN YOU LAUNCH A NIGHT AIR ATTACK? Hara signaled back from Zuikaku that he was prepared to send twenty-seven planes. They took off just before dusk but found nothing. On the way back, however, they were set upon by a group of Fletcher's fighters. Nine Japanese were shot down; the others dispersed and tried to make their way home in the dark. One cluster of six eventually found a carrier and let down to join the other planes in the landing pattern. As the first Japanese skimmed the deck, landing hook extended, he was blasted over the side with a hail of gunfire. The carrier was Yorktown." The book is a single volume piece on the entire Pacific theatre. But it's thick, and it has some great narrative descriptions of naval battles (both air and surface). Anyway, I just thought it was good little anecdote, and appropriate. Thanks! Matt
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