October 15, 2011

Disintigration

This is a few days old but Wonderduck has knocked one out of the park, with a tightly written overview of what went wrong with the sortie from USS Hornet during the Battle of Midway.

I had never been clear on why the ships air group seemed to disintegrate or why Torpedo 8 was without any support when they went on their death ride. The answer is appalling. Read the whole thing.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at 09:18 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 73 words, total size 1 kb.

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.
27kb generated in CPU 0.0138, elapsed 0.087 seconds.
67 queries taking 0.0796 seconds, 362 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.