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It MIGHT HAVE BEEN from Holger's "Luxury Fleet." Don't hate me if I'm wrong.

The head of the History Department at Purdue, Gordon Mork, recommended the book to me. I was doing a reading semester on the HSF, pre-WWI. My brain might fire up eventually.

Don't bet the ranch on that.

OpanaPointer wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:25 am Somewhere in this morass I have a book on Hawaiian coastal defense.

Defenses of Pearl Harbor & Oahu 1907-50
by Glen Williford (Author)

I've been past the Big Ass Antenna Thing (BAAT) at San Diego, back in the '80s.

Do we know what they were using in Japan for military transmissions? I know Station Hypo and Station Cast were listening but did the Stateside facilities have a chance to catch any of that?

Inspired by this thread: https://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9335&sid=8473600f1ca0145d51e14b07ff07e5ae The "war warning message" was sent to Hawaii via Western Union's 40 KW transmitter in California, the US Army's 20 KW couldn't punch through the solar flare "...

IIRC the guns from Arizona's after turrets were placed as defensive weapons. No need for a turret. The complete turrets were emplaced on Oahu. Also, the 8" turrets from Lexington or Saratoga were placed to augment Oahu's defenses. I'd forgotten about the Lex and Sara. T/Y. Somewhere in this mo...

You could edit the page to clarify this.

See what wiki says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sportpalast

Remember, the sources and footnotes are breadcrumbs.

A long forgotten source reported that KW II drew a battleship on a napkin during a diner date one night. Not known if he pursued that project. I suspect a psychological profile would read ADHD at minimum.

IIRC the guns from Arizona's after turrets were placed as defensive weapons. No need for a turret.

Bismarck's turrets weighed 1,056 metric tons, and were supported on roller track platforms. Below there were a series of levels that extended from the upper deck down to the bottom of the ship. https://www.kbismarck.com/armament.html#:~:text=Each%20turret%20weighed%201%2C056%20metric,the%20bottom%20...

marcelo_malara wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:35 pm Yes Hammy, in the rigging plans, "Rig to mainmast", there is an item that reads "Helm signals, green ball starboard, red cones (originally flag) to port".

"Red on the right, returning." Still used today.

Was the Kaiser that rational?

bellum se alit