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

[fso301]

Can’t 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.

[fso301]

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.

[alfa6]

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 ;>}

[henkster]

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 It may actually be a bit outdated.

[CougarGA7]

That’s about the size of it. The American fleet hesitated.