Hotschi
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Joined: 1/18/2010 From: Austria Status: offline
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Barb, please keep up your excellent research, that's all very useful info. Some long time ago, I started an Excel-sheet, comparing the construction times of all war-built larger combattant vessels of the USN (down to destroyers, no DE's or submarines yet). I did it primarily because I wondered about all the mods available which add more or different IJN ships - thus giving the Japanese more punch. My thought was - and is - that if the Japanese were stronger, thus able to drag out the war, would the US have slowed down construction (as it did historically)? When you see it plain in a table, it's amazing how different the average construction times were near the end of the war, especially visible when looking at the Gearing-class destroyers. That sheet isn't finished yet, and who knows when it will be finished... And mid-time into it I realized I forgot about the 29th February, so there's need to recalculate some values - if only I knew where and when I stopped that...
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"A big butcher's bill is not necessarily evidence of good tactics" - Wavell's reply to Churchill, after the latter complained about faint-heartedness, as he discovered that British casualties in the evacuation from Somaliland had been only 260 men.
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