[ARC5] Ht-4 Query

[Glen Zook via ARC5]

After Swede shot down the Zeroes, the some of the pilots started calling the SBD (Scout Bomber Douglas) an SBDF (Scout Bomber Douglas Fighter)! Glen, K9STH

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     On Friday, October 24, 2014 8:02 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
   

 On 24 Oct 2014 at 20:30, Mark K3MSB wrote:

> 
> That's not true Ken.

OK. But I was reporting what I had I read in another book. I don't remember 
the name of the book, but I DO remember what was written. This was a book 
in which was written all sorts of information that had been obtained directly 
from the Japanese after WWII.

>  A number of staff officers on Nagumo's flagship wanted to
> go back after the second strike and destroy the drydocks and fuel supplies.
> Nagumo did not wish to risk his carriers and decided not to do so.  Had he
> decided to do so, the Pacific war might have turned out very differently and
> very sooner.

True.

> Two excellent books on this topic are "Carrier Wars" by Edwin Hoyt
> and "At Dawn we Slept" by Gordon Prange. 73 Mark K3MSB

OK. BTW, have you ever read "The Last Stand of the TIn Can Sailors" by 
Hornfischer? Every time I think of it, I get chills up and down my spine.

Ken W7EKB
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