"Midway: Best Battle With an Unpredicted Outcome" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 08 Jul 2024 11:28 a.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link Best Battle With an Unpredicted Outcome in History?And in the final round of voting: 31% – "Midway"
29% – "Rorkes Drift 1879"
17% – "Agincourt" |
| rustymusket | 08 Jul 2024 5:14 p.m. PST |
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 Herkybird  | 09 Jul 2024 6:18 a.m. PST |
What about the Battle of the sexes? LOL! |
ScottWashburn  | 05 Sep 2024 5:35 p.m. PST |
@Herkybird We don't know the outcome yet. |
 Old Contemptible | 05 Sep 2024 10:43 p.m. PST |
Midway wasn't as one-sided as most people think. But it sounds good on book covers and in the movies. |
| ScottWashburn | 22 Sep 2024 3:54 p.m. PST |
+1 OC Yes, much is often made about the greater 'experience' of the Japanese fleet compared to the US. But actually, when it came to defending a task force against air attack and dealing with battle damage, the Americans had considerably more experience than Nagumo's force.The officers and crew of Shokaku and Zuikaku could probably have given Nagumo's men quite a lot of good advice, but they weren't there, were they? |
| Nine pound round | 25 Sep 2024 6:25 p.m. PST |
The USN's speed of adaptation may have been as important as the Two Ocean Navy Act to victory in the Pacific. The realization that aviation gas lines on a carrier were a vulnerability was a product of "Lexington's" loss at Coral Sea- and not even a month later, the USN had already figured out how to fill the fuel lines with pressurized CO2, to minimize the risk of fire. |
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