Posted on 07/21/2004 6:09:04 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
This ran over a month ago, but I had wanted to wait to post it until I had a new contract with the Ink. Since I only sell them first print rights, I am giving away first electronic rights by posting here. Hope you enjoy it, and feel free to offer constructive criticism if you wish. I'll post the next one (from later in June) tomorrow and the third (from mid-july) on Friday.
Also, please note that I am establishing a low-volume ping list for my column work. This will be pinged once or twice a month at first, but I will eventually be writing for them weekly. Sing out if you want on the list.
Congratulations!
bttt
Very interesting and well-written. Sounds like you will be a great help to the local people there.
One grammar comment I'll add. (I hesitate to say this, because I make grammar mistakes myself! But you asked for any constructive criticism...)
"It could only make about 100 knots when loaded, and had an awful rate of climb."
There should not be a comma after the word "loaded."
Your article is great, so please only take this as encouragement!
Congratulations, and good luck in the future.
Woo hoo! Congrats to a published FReeper!!
Good stuff. Please keep my on the list.
And for those who don't know their WWII history, our valient torpedo bomber crews did not die in vain. They pulled the Japanese CAP (combat air patrol, the fighter cover over the carrier battlegroup) down to the deck. When our dive bombers showed up, just after the torpedo bombers had been shot down, Japanese fighters had no altitude, and could do little to stop the dive bombers.
Ultimate result: 4 Japanese fleet carriers sunk, hundreds and hundreds of their experienced naval aviators lost, and the biggest turning point of our war in the Pacific against Japan.
/valient/valiant/
I really should use teh spell checker.
Congrats Mr Silverback.
Please ping me to your articles, I write but don't get paid.
Not yet anyway, I've been published on the net and the 2 local papers and the Buffalo News
"....but it's alright Ma,...I'm only writin'..."
Kudos to you Mr. S......and good luck.
FMCDH(BITS)
A congrats BTTT!
A better example might be the WBTS when the South could not afford to keep up with technological advances like the Spencers. That was costly.
Your article sounds a lot like Hanson's work.
CONGRATS!
Would you put me on your ping list?
This is an excellent article. As I recall, George H.W. Bush flew a TBD - a sitting duck if there ever was one.
I trained as a Navy combat aircrewman in WW2. Your article hit home with me.
Thanks.
Great article.
This is not a criticism at all, but just my 2 cents...
Word is that the Mitsubishi Zero was a carbon copy of a plane Howard Hughes had offered the US armed forces before the war, and they turned it down.
Certainly, it was better than anything we had in December, 1941.
I just hope your new career as a paid media whore doesn't take away from my beloved
Useful Idiot Caption-a-Rama!
I just love that!
Congratulations! Never forget...
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!
That is so exciting - and it's a great column! Put me on your permanent ping list!
Kerry seemed to believe that all the complex problems of U.S.-Soviet relations would vanish with a poof if we would just build fewer ships and planes.
Funny how it turned out exactly the opposite. The Gipper built more military hardware... and all the complex problems of U.S.-Soviet relations vanished with a "poof".
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