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WO Katsuki -> RE: Best use of Lex and big E at start (8/24/2012 2:20:41 AM)
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historically the IJN threw away their veteran aircrews..
every raid they perfromed (darwin, colombo, etc.. ) wore down their numbers that by the time of midway they were a skeleton force,
better to have sent rookies on those raids, and kept the best pilots alive for the big battles
every one of those expert pilots could have been an instructor and trained 100 decent 60 exp pilots each,
having said that though.. the USN put their carries in amazing levels of risk with their raids (marshalls raid, doolittle raid, rabaul raid)
any one of those raids could have been sunk with a proper number of bettys+zeroes
so what to do with those carriers?
a) run and hide
b) disembark the carrier planes and use them at port moresby to train them up
c) stick your finger in the pencil sharpener, and hope you find a cookie rather than a blade
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