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In Reply to: RE: Think you misread me- look at title AND text- "If" nt. posted by MWE on March 12, 2017 at 16:31:02
What-if discussions about real battles don't interest me much, I find it difficult to take them seriously. Unless they are being used to reinforce useful lessons about actual outcomes.
Otherwise, they smack to me of 'de sowf will rahze aginn' syndrome.
Further, it seem silly to consider Midway in isolation from Coral Sea, which took out two IJN fleet carriers, so that the former battle defined the USN's ability to win Midway. And the timing is so close.
Midway wasn't a draw, it was a shattering defeat for the IJN, and the turning point of the Pacific War.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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If the IJN had had at Midway the two carriers taken out of operations at Coral Sea, how might things have turned out? Probably no better than a draw or worse. Sorry, I DO like to play "what if?" scenarios, my apologies to anyone who doesn't care for them. Time for me to be done with this, apparently.
Mark in NC
"The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains" -Paul Simon
It didn't happen and after Coral Sea, it couldn't happen.
Do try to get your head around facing up to reality, it might help, and can't hurt in the long term, just like chicken soup.
Denying reality is not a good path.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
You are being awfully bitter and ad hominem. I am truly, truly done with this now.
"The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains" -Paul Simon
Big roles in this much discussed battle.
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