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YankeeAirRat -> OT: An interesting turn around in 2 years (6/7/2012 9:52:13 AM)

So as I write this it is 0100 US Pacific time on the 7th of June. Today is considered the traditional end of combat during the Battle of Midway. The actual sinking of the Yorktown will occur in four hours from when I post this. While Enterprise and Hornet and thier battle groups are steaming back towards PH between the two of them they can sort of put together an airgroup for one ship minus the Torpedo Planes. Meanwhile on the other side of the world the Germans are full into Operation Barbarosa with Germans holding everything west of a line between a Rostov and Lenningrad. They had also made major gains in the Desert with the capture of Tobruk and lining up to do the first battle of the El Alamein. Then in two years time, the landings on the Normandy coast would occur with the Germans in full on retreat from the coast line. The Soviets finally retake the Crimea and are pushing head long to the West. Out in the Pacific the largest fleet every assembled under Ray Spruance leaves Ulithi Atoll on the 6th of June, from what I have read it would take a full day for just the screen elements (DD, DE, CL's) to clear the harbor and it would take another day and a half for the rest of the fleet to get assembled before steaming towards Saipian and the fifth and final major carrier to carrier battle to date. It is interesting to see what just two years makes in a war time in your patient.



Onime No Kyo -> RE: OT: An interesting turn around in 2 years (6/7/2012 8:52:46 PM)

Go to sleep. [:D]



Uncivil Engineer -> RE: OT: An interesting turn around in 2 years (6/7/2012 10:22:02 PM)

The Saipan invasion force launched from Eniwetok, not Ulithi.



YankeeAirRat -> RE: OT: An interesting turn around in 2 years (6/8/2012 8:21:28 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Uncivil Engineer

The Saipan invasion force launched from Eniwetok, not Ulithi.


D'oh Your right. Late night/early morning and should have been [>:], but trying to quiet an infant who doesn't understand normal bed times...

Anyhow, the point being that it is an turn of events that in 1942 what was left of the American Carrier Fleet in the Pacific had just pulled off an amazing win against the majority of the Imperial Japanese Fleet. Two years later there are more carriers on the American side sorting to head to Saipan then total number of Battleships that were active (if you count CV, CVL, CVE's together) against what was left of the Imperial Japanese Navy carrier fleet for an epic battle that would effectively destroy the ability of the Imperial Japanese Navy Carrier Aviation as any fighting force. After that the carriers would be nothing but bomb/torpedo sponges for the rest of the Imperial Japanese Fleet.



ilovestrategy -> RE: OT: An interesting turn around in 2 years (6/8/2012 6:10:28 PM)

I remember someone here in the forums once saying that we had more fleet carriers than the Japanese had capital ships. Not only the ships, the logistics was a work of art. Everything from spam to type writer ribbon.

Japan against the world's greatest super power that had a pissed off population.



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