George Washington takes command of the continental army, c. 1775. From a drawing by Paul Hawthorne, 1941.
Posted on 07/22/2004 12:00:11 AM PDT by SAMWolf
Interesting.
He went looking for his men instead.
That's dedication to one's troops.
Wonder if he found any of them.
Good Morning Radu.
Morning Aeronaut.
Hi Sam.
Morning E.G.C. We're supposed to hit 100 this weekend. Looks like a good time to find an air conditioned theatre.
LOL!
Morning stand watie. How are you and Sandra doing?
Free Dixie!
Morning Matt.
That poll proves that Poland still has a backbone and isn't like france, Germany, Spain or the Philippines.
:-)
Morning alfa6.
Anzio or Gallipoli do come to mind don't they?
Morning GailA.
Thanks for providing the donuts again this morning.
George Washington takes command of the continental army, c. 1775. From a drawing by Paul Hawthorne, 1941.
Morning PE.
Nice painting. I sure wouldn't want to have been in that uphill assault.
Dunkin or Winchell's. ;-)
Morning Darksheare.
Good Morning Feather.
Good morning to you and Thank You for the neat Flag-o-gram.
It seems to me that of all the founding fathers George Washington is yhe only one who's myth lines up with the reality. That's not to say these guys weren't great men, but John Adams who's favorite form of conversation was tha argument(He would of made a great Freeper, if he could keep from being banned), Ben Franklin who how shall I put this....liked the ladies A LOT, Jefferson, cold two faced, REALLY ambitious, Hamilton had...issues with his bastardy.
And thank God we had them!
The Japanese wanted aircraft with superior manuervability and long range. The Japanese knew that range would be important in Pacific operations. They also believed that a VERY highly trained pilot corps with the warrior spirit would vanquish any enemy.
The Americans went in for a plane that might not be as manuevable and have the range but had armor and self-sealing fuel tanks to protect the highly trained pilot. The American aircraft typically had a heavier armament the the Japanese planes as well.
It could be said that the Japanese went for quality over quantity, while the Americans went for quantity over quality in pilots. Not a perfect analogy as the Americans after the training programs got up to speed produced a very competent pilot.
For a good discussion of what the training that the Japanese Navy put there pilots thru see,IIRC< Saburo Saki's book Zero Pilot. The pilot trainig in the IJN was nothing short of brutal as I recall.
have to call it a night I will check on the book title in the AM.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Thanks. Now I'm going to have to find this book. I just hope you can live with yourself!
I'm Valin and I'm a bookaholic.
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