"Rethinking the Technological Story of the Pacific..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 Jul 2020 9:16 p.m. PST |
… Theater of the Second World War "Is the fundamental technological story of naval battle in the Pacific War wrong? For a very long time, the narrative of the relative effectiveness of battleships and aircraft carriers has been told as one of stunning reversal, with the Pearl Harbor attack and the sinking of two British battleships off Malaya confirming the primacy of airpower (naval or no) and the obsolescence of the battleship. While historians have always had reservations about this narrative, it has retained a firm popular grip and substantial scholarly support. However, a new article in the Journal of Military History argues that the advantages of aircraft carriers over battleships has been wildly overstated in historical memory of World War II, even in the Pacific. James FitzSimonds argues that battleships remained central to naval power in the Pacific, even into 1944 and 1945 when the great U.S. Navy carrier task forces seemed to dominate the sea…"
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| JMcCarroll | 15 Jul 2020 4:19 p.m. PST |
Two different tools.
Each with there own strengths and weaknesses. |
| Tango01 | 16 Jul 2020 12:53 p.m. PST |
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