Spruance’s Carrier Raids on the Japanese Home Islands with Jon Parshall-Episode 414

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This week Seth and Bill welcome back good buddy Jon Parshall to talk about the first American carrier raids on the Japanese Home Islands since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942. In February 1945, just before Iwo Jima, Task Force 58 under the command of Marc Mitscher sails to within 60 miles of Honshu to launch the first US Navy carrier raids against Tokyo. Fighting the Japanese as well as terrible weather, the results are less than spectacular. A month later Spruance and Mitscher return, this time to Kyushu, to hit the birthing grounds of the kamikazes. In the two-day fight, American pilots ravage Japanese installations, but the fleet takes a beating in return, with 6 carriers suffering damage. Tune in to hear this oft-forgotten series of strikes in the latter stages of the war in the Pacific.
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@lagoodman3349 День назад

Bill this was your best episode as a presenter. Well spoken. Seth your editing has improved significantly. John you continue to be a excellent guest speaker. I truly enjoy the three guys sitting in the bar talking. Thank you.

@PalleRasmussen 2 дня назад

Every video with Jon is a treat.

@LordJuan4 День назад

For real, Seth and Bill (and any of the other guests) are amazing hosts in their own right and I tune in for every episode, but Jon really is a pleasure to listen to

@unbreakable7633 День назад

My father, a signalman on the USS Hornet (CV 12), was with Task Force 58. One of his jobs was a plotter in the Combat Information Center (he also manned a radar station and radio as other jobs he was trained for) and the Hornet time and again served as the flagship. He told me that Admiral Mitscher was a good guy; he also liked Clark but thought Halsey was an arrogant behind. When I bought a Japanese car once, all he said was, "They tried to drop bombs on me." When he was very old and visiting my sister in San Francisco, she asked him if he wanted to go see the Hornet, which was docked there as a museum ship; he said, "I've seen it."

@jammininthepast 2 дня назад

Thank you Gentlemen, I value and enjoy your excellent work.

@billgrider4448 День назад

I look forward to each & every episode. Thanks!

@douglaskillock3537 2 дня назад

Great to see Jon back on board. A relatively restrained shirt by his standard but contrasts nicely with the legendary wallpaper

@jesscarver9882 2 дня назад

Bill, thank you for the 9/11 video.

@theodoreolson8529 День назад

I've watched many of your episodes now. In fact it's to the point where I start dropping the term "cats" into my casual conversation. "Yea, those cats were the best at what they did" Thanks for the bonus.

@markterribile6948 День назад

Full frontal nerdity--I love it!

@richardbeard5593 2 дня назад

Thank yall for all yall do bring out the heroes in this war... This is the first time I've heard or seen of this engagement. Thank ya for bringing it out.. Continue ya good work and may God's blessings be upon yall...

@lafouche345 2 дня назад

The big 3 ……. always a treat !

@jesscarver9882 2 дня назад

Tuesday is truly the best day of the week! Bill Seth Thank you guys!!

@kepple83 День назад

I agree Tuesdays are the best day

@salonicah 2 дня назад

Thanks for the great information, from Guadalcanal,

@richardbennett1856 2 дня назад

Cheers! Feel free to chime in, anytime. Stay cool, mate.

@wkbigfish День назад

Another great episode. As Bill says…”See you again next week”. Wouldn’t miss it. Thanks

@bobnewby9129 День назад

I'm really liking the trend toward longer shows. I'll take all you have to give!

@paulrugg1629 20 часов назад

Again, a most informative episode about a subject not often presented in the world of pac history. These guys are in the weeds on a subject not often visited.... Thank you guys

@ThePlebicide 2 дня назад

Excellent work Gentlemen

@OMMgreenshirt 2 дня назад

Good morning gentlemen, I awoke to see the clock showing at 4:02am here in Oregon and said to myself, "It's time!" so up with my first cup of coffee listening in. I am very excited to hear what is next due to my father being aboard USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) at that time. He was a signalman "skivvy waver" at the Flag Boards station.

@unclemikedoyle День назад

You and me, both. My grandfather was a Bosun aboard Bunker Hill. He never talked about Okinawa (or any of the actions he was in), but the photo of the crew on the pier in front of her hung front and center in his den.

@unbreakable7633 День назад

My father was a signalman on the USS Hornet (CV 12), which was also with Task Force 58. And I was glad to find this video.

@robertwatson9359 2 дня назад

I know you have a list of stories that you have not covered that you value, but my Dad was on a Destroyer Escort, USS Barber, not many stories from that ship, they picked up sailors from the water of two Destroyers while on the coast of le Shima, USS Twiggs and USS Hadley. He recounted the stories, saying we knew what was going on, the kamakazes were raining havoc on the US Fleet and felt the threat they represented. There were many DEs sunk from attacks and they delivered the underwater swimmers to clear or scout landing beaches before the invasion fleets came in. He said his service did not have mush effect on the war but many did. The flyers and sailors they picked up had a different opinion of his service..

@Jon.A.Scholt 2 дня назад

The best thing about Tuesdays!

@おだいふく-x6t День назад

日本では、月を眺めて秋の深まりを味わう習慣があってこれを中秋の名月と言いますが、秋の月夜の下こちらの濃密なお話を聴きながら美しい月をぼんやり見てるのもなかなか風雅でいいものです。

@MinnesotaGuy822 День назад

When I was a kid, I was fortunate that my family lived on the north side of a lake in Minnesota with a dock that also had a sitting bench. In the summer, when the wind was from the south, it was such a gently magical experience to sit on the bench at night and look at the moon as it traversed the southern sky. I like this Japanese custom you mentioned, to take the time to just sit under the stars and appreciate the autumn moonlight. Best wishes from Minnesota. :)

@おだいふく-x6t День назад

@@MinnesotaGuy822 ご返信ありがとうございます。静かな夜の湖水の波音と南の空にに現れる月の幻想的な姿見が目に浮かびます。月夜を愛でることは古今東西の人々を慰め心を癒すものであると思いますね。

@christopherj.osheav5807 2 дня назад

50° 27' 0.0036'' N and 30° 31' 23.9988'' E Gentlemen, Well done. Another poignant trip down memory lane. Keep those cards and letters coming. Thank you. V/r - IB An American in Ukraine (2019 - Present)

@xbubblehead День назад

At 80 years of age, I still have trouble wrapping my head around how short a time it was between the Doolittle Raid and the surrender of Japan. It's about the same length of time between the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and now.

@uberduberdave День назад

I wish I had the luxury to sit through these two to three hour episodes, but I don't. I have take them in 20 to 30 minute pieces in between household chores and other activities. Even so the excitement generated by learning a new episode is out only wanes at the end. I always discover details about wartime events I thought knew fairly well, and I'm always left wanting more. I first stumbled upon these podcasts about a year or so ago, and binge watched until I ran out, much like binge watching a favorite TV show on Netflix or the like. Now I must wait what seems for ever until the next episode comes out. I truly wish all of you the best of health, so you will continue the podcasts for years to come. Life would go on without them, but I would be seriously less enjoyable.

@MadLudwig День назад

Great episode gents! I don't recall having read about or seen any video production on these raids. Very informative and interesting. Thanks!

@Titus-as-the-Roman 2 дня назад

Thanks again. Ugaki was an enlightening read, Vice Admiral Chūichi Hara is another good read, how accurate I can't say, it sounded good.

@jammin4372 День назад

Love when John is on👍👍

@KennanKlein 2 дня назад

Thanks for another great episode. I think it's really cool the video interludes. Thank you so much for what you do!

@TheFUZEMAN 2 дня назад

One vote for keep talking! 😊 Another informative, entertaining high quality video!!!

@73Trident День назад

Great episode as usual guys. Thank you for this wealth of information that you share with us.

@DanColley-qy3wi 2 дня назад

Hellcat Ns were a picnic to fly when compared to what the pilots of today's single-seat fighter pilotshave to deal with.(eg. F15 and F16) Taking NOTHING from those Hellcat drivers. They did AMAZING things with the small toolbox they worked from. I feel obligated to add that you guys are doing a tremendous job. Your programming serves to fill in blanks were info is lacking. Example : I knew that there were "some" raids on Tokyo in this time frame, but there is a dearth of any printed or electronic data that I have any access to. Today was a VERY informative day. Thank you.

@toroon День назад

Just want to say . Well done!!!

@Titus-as-the-Roman 2 дня назад

The story that goes with Secretary Stintson's removal of Kyoto from the bombing list is also interesting. Was watching a Documentary on the Chaos Theory/Butterfly Effect when mathematicians used that story as an analogy, it was the reason Nagasaki was eventually chosen for the 2nd A-bomb.- Guys I knew that Flew would call that Cluster-Puck over Tokyo as "Fly Soup"

@gregcollins7602 День назад

Fantastic Torpedo Tuesday. I could have nerded out for another hour just on the night fighter and radar development. It's always fun when the 3 amigos are together. Has anyone ever noticed the patterns on Jon's shirts make it difficult to determine his range and course?

@infomericalfactory596 День назад

A show on these late war Japanese’s fighters and other military technology the Japanese developed would be great. Also one on USA radar Technology. Thanks guys this show was one of your best.

@marchuvfulz День назад

Great vid. The discussion of the US Navy buildup highlights our remarkable industrial mobilization, but even more amazing to me is the human mobilization--all of those ships needed officers, pilots, and crews, and all of those people had to be recruited, trained, and deployed after Dec. '41. Think of the investment in schools, training facilities, instructors, etc., to get to this point. Pretty astonishing when you think of it.

@rangerlongshot День назад

The thing that astounds me the most is what we did with logistics and building infrastructure as we crossed the Pacific. Everything single thing and every person and every nail or can of Spam had to come from 6000-8000 miles away. It's mind boggling.

@Rocketsong День назад

The numbers stagger the mind. For example, we had 20,000 aviators killed in training accidents alone, during WWII.

@CarnageDogg День назад

I'm a Seth guy. Seth's the glue.

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar День назад

Many thanks

@rohan1970b 2 дня назад

Bill mentioned (26:15) that they were still building mechanical driven fighter based radar in the early 2000's. I served in the Air Force from 91-97 as a radar technician. However, mine was ATC. We had ASR that was mechanical and PAR that was electronic so it was very slow in adapting, but if you've been in, it's not surprising.

@gchoquette299 День назад

I really appreciate your telling the under told history of the Pacific theater. Keep up the good work.

@JohnLane-h4r День назад

Entertaining as always thanks 😊 for your service to those who were there off shore on the ships and aircraft…….truly the greatest men our country ever had in service to its citizens

@lwilde 2 дня назад

Excellent presentation. Bravo Zulu.

@SoonerDan77 День назад

I never cease to be amazed at how much of a damage piñata the Saratoga was. It's probably the unluckiest ship to survive the war.

@sethparidon8654 День назад

Damage pinata. I really like that one.

@warwatcher91 День назад

Only Intrepid and Birmingham really come close.

@Rocketsong 9 часов назад

As a converted Battle-cruiser Saragoga had better torpedo protection than the newer carriers. Good thing for her given how much of a torpedo magnet she was.

@FlyingDutchmanPodcast День назад

Okay I’m really enjoying this . I’m an airplane guy post WWII but this channel has opened my eyes to a whole new area of interest. Thank you

@pablolugo2615 День назад

As always great information, knowledgeable and entertaining.

@petervandyk7173 2 дня назад

Tuesday has become my favourite day, since you guys started this brilliant series. Thanks for yet another great episode. T.G.I.T. 😁

@chuckhillier4153 2 дня назад

Much appreciated.

@bobnewby9129 День назад

Yay, Jon Parshall again.

@christopherqueen3194 2 дня назад

An Essex class carrier being commissioned every other month! Wow! Steve Rogers: “I can do this all day.”

@denniswiemer72 День назад

Thanks again for another great episode. So looking forward to the Franklin show.

@EricByrd-ex2pc 2 дня назад

Great episode - the slow build! Spruance’s patience and planning are always astonishing. He and Grant overlap in many instances. Parshall lives in Minneapolis, and I’ve wondered if he stops in at Magers & Quinn, a local bookstore whose naval history section is deeper than you would expect. Lots of Naval Institute Press titles.

@ziggle314 2 дня назад

Thanks for the note on the bookstore. I live in the Minneapolis area and am looking for good local bookstores to patronize.

@EricByrd-ex2pc 2 дня назад

Midway Books, in St Paul, is another good one for WW2, and for anything really. A deep collection - the booksellers have very fine taste.

@user-cl5dm1uj3k 2 дня назад

My Great Grandpa was on the Franklin. Only thing I remember him talking about is climbing up the uptakes to get out of the ship. Looking forward to that episode. He didn't talk about it much. There is a great book called Inferno by Joseph Springer that is pretty excellent talking about the ordeal of the men on the ship, its quite shocking. Awesome episodes, always enjoy the channel.

@unbreakable7633 День назад

My father served on the USS Hornet (CV 12) and was on its deck to witness the Franklin get hit. He said it was the worst thing he saw in the war.

@thomassanchez9693 13 часов назад

My Father served on the Wasp during this time. It was nice to hear You talk about the different operations. I looked at My Dads yearbook from the Wasp and could see photos, and see how rough it must have been. Thank You!

@scottjohnson136 День назад

Gentlemen, once again well done!

@briancooper2112 День назад

Again another great episode!

@craigplatel813 2 дня назад

While the planes weren't designated as F/A, in January of 1945 squadrons started to be designated as VBF. At the start of the Okinawa campaign there were 6 squadrons assigned to TF-58 that were designated as VBF. A good book concerning the high percentage of new pilots is twilight warriors by Robert Gandt who was one of those new pilots assigned to airwing 10 during the Okinawa campaign.

@billechols7136 2 дня назад

Great show gentlemen.

@OMMgreenshirt 2 дня назад

Awesome episode and thanks for the teaser of starting "Operation Iceberg" next week.

@BernardMann-nf1ks День назад

Another great episode thanks my brothers

@MM22966 День назад

Carrier pilots: "Cool! We're doing missions over Japan's Home Islands!" Also Carrier pilots: "Don't get shot down or have to crash land there."

@cragnamorra 15 часов назад

Another absolutely superb episode. One of the things I've most enjoyed about this channel is how you bring out so many of these lesser-known (to many, even "unknown") but very significant operations. To even relative aficionados who've read a lot of Pacific War history and are quite familiar with the "big" battles (Marianas, Leyte, Iwo, etc), it's easy to form a general - perhaps even subconscious - false impression of "not that much happening" in between those intense, costly, but relatively short events. You guys are really highlighting the CONTINUOUS daily grind of arduous combat operations, with the very important implication that these sailors and aircrew are ENTERING the big battles like Leyte Gulf already fatigued and ground down from weeks or even months of hard fighting without let-up. Fantastic job.

@slimeydon День назад

Great episode guys, and Jon, I love the contrast of that shirt with that wallpaper.

@DalonCole День назад

i come for Jon’s shirts i stay for the content

@davidbonnici8786 День назад

I come for Jon’s wallpaper. 😂. And stay for the content.

@SamAlley-l9j 16 часов назад

Thank you Bill Seth and Jon!

@user-nw7vx8rx1t 2 дня назад

Ruby, Tuesday now has a new meeting to me, Steph and Bill and Jon. I likewise love Tuesdays now

@therealuncleowen2588 2 дня назад

I wish I'd known half as much about the war in the 80s growing up as I do today. I'd have tried to find out what every middle aged man in my hometown had done in the war. I didn't and I have no idea today. Even if they didn't want to talk about it, I wouldn't have pressed them, and I'd liked to have just said thank you.

@NateWilliams190 День назад

I was just thinking something similar. My Dad was in the Marianas then in the occupying forces in Japan, of 2 of his friends, 1 was a B17 ball turret gunner in Europe & the other, the shooter in a .50 cal machine gun squad up the Italian boot. I wished I'd asked all of them a lot more than I did.

@therealuncleowen2588 День назад

@@NateWilliams190 Thanks for sharing. To your dad and his buddies, thanks for standing up to tyranny.

@DalonCole День назад

live watching this channel grow

@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey 2 дня назад

Some carrier skippers refused to use the SB2C aboard their ships . They used the F6F as fighter bombers.

@carrabellefl День назад

Thanks!

@joeyartk День назад

The MacArthur airfield joke was pretty good.

@davidbonnici8786 День назад

Love your work and thank you for all you guys do. Keep us in the loop for when you present in person I keep missing you. I visited New Orleans for the incredible WW2 museum in February and Fredericksburg for the Pacific War museum a year ago based on your work.

@alganhar1 2 дня назад

You know, thats something a modified Fairey Fulmar might have actually been good at. Carrier launched Night Fighter. This is 1945, so slap one of the new Griffon engines in, add a radar, remove the MG's, put in 4 cannons, or maybe 6 .50's. Its not going to have the performance of a Corsair, but its got the advantage of a second seater who could be the radar operator, so guide the pilot to the target, which would speed up target acquisition, identification and engagement. Plus Fulmars were Fighter/recon aircraft, so they had a good range even clean, which means plenty of loiter time. It may have actually made the Fulmar useful!

@Cuffsmaster День назад

great job guys

@andrewnlarsen День назад

Another well done presentation again and it definitely matches up with what I have read in the past about the early 1945 carrier strikes. Two things I want to bring up is that the strikes I believe on March 19, 1945 also included impromptu strikes against the remaining ships of the Combined Fleet, which were in the Inland Sea at the time as well as the clarification that the Japanese 343 Air Group had both the N1K1 Shinden and the N1K2-J Shinden Kai (which most of the pilots flew during that deadly encounter on March 19,1945). And rightfully so the trial of USS Franklin deserves its own video. Finally the Japanese definitely gave as good as they got and it would serve as a prelude to the horrors of Okinawa.

@ph89787 2 дня назад

Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy!!

@rayschoch5882 День назад

I don't know that they had radar direction yet, but when the 3rd/5th fleet attacked Formosa/Taiwan in the run-up to Leyte Gulf in October, 1944, my dad's F6F-5 took 3 25mm hits raiding an airfield, including 1 to the engine. The squadron history says they were 40mm, but A) that was an uncommon caliber for Japanese AAA; and B) not even a Hellcat would likely stay together if it took 3 40mm hits. I've seen photos of the mangled plane after it landed, and while it managed to get dad back to the Lexington, it was deemed "unrepairable" and pushed over the side after a bit of cannibalization of guns and parts. Low-altitude runs against the Japanese could be lethal by this point in the war, and even more so by mid-1945.

@stephanshemenski6348 22 часа назад

I was an ET from 1979 until 1992 and had extensive exposure in my uncle's TV repair shop prior to joining the Navy and realized that the small screen you described was a CRT vacuum tube used in oscilloscopes. It was the same diameter and with sweep circuits in the display it could provide the pilot with the information he needed to locate the home in and destroy the enemy aircraft. Incidents, my 1st radar, the AN/FPN-63 PAR had mechanical movement of the waveguide to cause the rf beam to sweep back and forth or up and down as needed to produce a glide path and center line for ATC to guide a plane into to land

@iainharding1992 29 минут назад

Outstanding presentation! 👏👏👏👏

@gnuspudguns День назад

Y'all are awesome.

@josephnason8770 2 дня назад

My dad had 760 hrs of stick time before his first combat mission on Kanoya March 18 1945 from Wasp, which was bombed the next day along with Franklin. This agrees with your 600 hr. figure at 39:17.

@Matt-416 2 дня назад

Excellent podcast!! Truly. Impeccable information and testimonials. The best WW2 podcast available, bar none. I do have one concern about what Captain Toti stated at 1:40:00 that the US had a higher rate of casualties than the Japanese. I can't rectify that, as Japan lost over 18,000 killed and the US lost under 7,000. Even the total US wounded barely outnumbers the Japanese killed. US lost less than 7% (28% if including all casualties), which is incredibly high. Juxtapose that with Japan losing 95% of its force.

@sethneumann5167 21 час назад

that's a good question: what were the total US KIA/Wounded v Japanese. I have to believe the Japanese KIA was in the millions?

@sethneumann5167 21 час назад

Duh, should have done a search 1st! The first site I found says total Japanese KIA was 2.6-3.1 million, with about 2.1 million combatants.

@Matt-416 21 час назад

@@sethneumann5167 Total? I was only referring to Iwo Jima. US: 27,000 total casualties out of 110,000. Japan: 18,000 killed out of roughly 19,000. Estimated total Japanese losses for WW2 are just under 2,200,000 military plus 700,000 civilians. It's all good... I also ask questions from following my thoughts.... Despite the ability for a quick Google search. Lol

@denniscahill9683 2 дня назад

Bill's windup is shockingly reminiscent of November-December 1944 in Europe...Hubris is deadly.

@plastichistory9148 3 часа назад

Seeing Jon on here after growing up with seeing him on battle 360 and many other things is crazy. Fantastic work fellas

@timandellenmoran1213 2 дня назад

Hi, great job on the Navy, Marines, Army. Could you do a reminder that a lot of our carrier pilots received training on the Great Lakes. Also, if you have not, and I am saying this from a point of not knowing if you may have already done so, mention the role that the Coast Guard played in the Pacific. Thank you.

@Perfusionist01 2 дня назад

I realize that these videos are prepared quite some time before air date, but could Jon speak to the Japanese Judy dive bombers and their crews? These were quite the "carrier killers" late in the Pacific war. To my knowledge it was conventional bombing from Judys that got the Princeton, Franklin and Bunker Hill among other victims. Also, could Bill address the story that the Japanese were able to board and examine the wreck of USS Darter off Palawan. Reportedly, the radar and signals equipment had been destroyed, but the recovered information about the USN IFF systems that allowed the Judys (and others) to get closer to the carriers. Thanks again for producing such a fine series of video podcasts.

@ph89787 2 дня назад

Be Saratoga Believe that the day’s of damage preventing you from joining battles is over Gets damaged almost immediately and is sent home for repairs Enterprise once again takes your place She is now responsible for providing CAP for both the marines and the escort carriers and the suppression of the airfields on the Bonnin Islands She does all three not just with flying colors but makes it one of the hallmarks of her career after launching constant sorties for 174 hours straight Having completed her mission she sails off into the sunset victoriously to rejoin the Fast Carrier task force Saratoga: She can’t keep getting away with this!

@sundiver137 2 дня назад

I met some cross-country bicyclists in the Rockies and they claimed the Appalachian Mountains are tougher than the Rockies. And Forrest Gump stopped running just north of Monument Valley, not in the Rockies.

@scrambledganglia6946 День назад

Shiden. A redesigned floatplane. Nasty suprise.

@paultaylor8552 День назад

Awesome

@mikeat2637 15 часов назад

When Jon was talking about the Japanese 343rd air unit, he mentioned JV-44 the unit of Experten under the command of Adolf Galland at the end of the war that was equipped with the Me-262. When I met General der Jagdflieger Galland back in the 1970's I asked him specifically about this tight-knit group of aces. He wistfully smiled and mentioned Steinhoff, Bar, Barkhorn, Lutzow and Krupinski as being some of the finest pilots he had ever known. His smile seemed by happy and sad at the same time. He was such a true gentleman.

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar 14 часов назад

So was my old buddy Gunther Rall.

@mikeat2637 13 часов назад

@@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar That's right, I remember you speaking about him. I've also seen some videos of his interviews and he was fascinating. He seemed to have a real joie de vivre.

@shooter2055 День назад

My uncle, Clarence Gnadt, was a plank holder on Randolph. --never talked about the war.

@jasonlupo4117 День назад

Love the video. I've been a fan of the series since I discovered it during your coverage of the Guadalcanal campaign. Tip: I'm from Houston, and the name "San Jacinto" is locally pronounced with the American English 'J'. For Spanish authenticity, use the 'H' sound for the J, not a 'Y'/'I'.

@impacking День назад

Isn’t that the name of the light carrier that the late President Bush flew off of?

@jasonlupo4117 День назад

@@impacking That is correct. :)

@sethneumann5167 21 час назад

My first reaction would be "HA-seen-toe," but for context, what did her crew call her?

@kingcrazymani4133 18 часов назад

Thank you, gentlemen, for this video. Timely in a few different ways to me. The surprises encountered may have motivated Curtis LeMay’s thought process. Probably did.

@matt291 2 дня назад

Interesting hearing that the best Japanese squadron still only managed a rough 1 to 1 kill to loss ratio against the average American squadrons.

@bughunter1766 2 дня назад

Okay, no more excuses. I want all those emails returned by the end of the day!😂

@robertmoffitt1336 День назад

1:23:35 Bill: "Pretty good shootin' " 😄

@johnmarlin4661 2 дня назад

Bravo Zulu guys !!

@BernardMann-nf1ks День назад

Thanks my 3 brothers awsum 😊

@cosetteudx День назад

I don't think they said what PPI stood for. It is Plan Position Indicator. What you see on the radar scope is similar to what is seen on a map. It is what I used as a Radar Navigator on B-52s to navigate and bomb with. I had to interpete what was on the PPI display with what was on my map.

@helenel4126 День назад

So informative! Your exegesis about the state of radar in 1944 was fun! I must be a nerd too.

@georgeburns7251 День назад

Thank you for the details of the Hellcat radar. This was extremely interesting. The radars that were installed on the Dauntless dive bombers earlier, and instead of a rotating dish antenna were fitted with yagi array antennas beneath the wings would be interesting to learn about. I don’t see anything about them using Google. Also, the Avengers had an early air search radar. What were the particulars about this set? In case you have a nerd moment in a later episode.