Skip to comments.
U.S. FLIERS SINK WARSHIP, DAMAGE 2, BUT GUADALCANAL FOE IS REINFORCED (10/11/42)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library
| 10/11/42
| Bertram D. Hulen, Byron Darnton, F. Tillman Durdin, Harrison Forman, James MacDonald, Milton Bracker
Posted on 10/11/2012 4:29:16 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-25 last
To: henkster
Cant even piss on your dead enemies any more.Martha Raddatz must have read your post because that was one of her first questions last night in the VP debate.
21
posted on
10/12/2012 3:42:33 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: henkster
The connection though, is that the Germans are going to have to devote more daylight fighters to the defense of their airspace over Western Europe and the Reich. Those fighters will have to be drawn from other theaters, particularly the Eastern Front. Without fighter protection, the Germans lose their air supremacy over the Soviets. I wonder if people in 1942 are making the connection.Not only fighter aircraft are being drawn West but also flak artillery. The flak artillery used for bomber defense could have been put to arguably better use on the eastern front as anti-tank guns.
22
posted on
10/12/2012 3:52:30 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: henkster
If you have not read it yet be sure to check out James Hornfischer’s Neptune’s Inferno.
All about the naval battles around Guadalcanal
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
23
posted on
10/12/2012 4:03:36 AM PDT
by
alfa6
(...Moderation is for monks RAH)
To: alfa6
I just read that book about a month ago. Hornfischer is a good author. I also have “Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.” I have not read his book about the USS Houston, “Ship of Ghosts.”
I’ll freepmail you my library list. It may actually be a bit outdated.
24
posted on
10/12/2012 6:53:02 AM PDT
by
henkster
(With Carter, the embassy staff was still alive.)
To: henkster; Homer_J_Simpson
That’s about the size of it. The American fleet hesitated.
25
posted on
10/12/2012 10:51:54 AM PDT
by
CougarGA7
("History is politics projected into the past" - Michael Pokrovski)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-25 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson