"USS Patoka" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 May 2014 11:13 p.m. PST |
"Hector Bywater's The Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-1933 is one of the great alternate history books. A favorite of mine to take on holiday and pick up and read any chapter. Using parts of the War Plan Orange this campaign story was written at the height of one of the many war scares between Japan and the United States in the early 1920s. It mostly ignores the effects of the Washington Naval Conference so the ships are the dreams of naval designers and architects both professional and amateurs. Some were built and others were left on the drawing boards. Hybrid warships were found along side battleships and battlecruisers. Carriers were found but the aircraft were not used for carrier strikes but for reconnaissance and gun spotting…"
Full article here
greenfieldsbeyond.wordpress.com Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Dave Schmid | 06 May 2014 7:32 a.m. PST |
That looks interesting. I may pick up a copy. |
| Tango01 | 06 May 2014 9:51 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. (smile). Amicalement
Armand |
| Charlie 12 | 06 May 2014 6:04 p.m. PST |
Actually Bywater wrote it before the Washington Naval Conference. It wasn't a case of ignoring the conference. |
| jony663 | 19 May 2014 7:54 a.m. PST |
Thank you, was getting the date of publication confused with the date of the war. |
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adds a machinegun platoon to his WWI Brits.
