Hey thanks! That worked for the USMC units. However, everything that I've got that's attached to the IV Air Force or IV FC will not give me an option to change HQ's. Any idea why?
 
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John

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Have a question. I am playing a campaign right now as the Allied player. I have numerous air units sitting on the West Coast--most of them are USMC squadrons--and for some reason I cannot load them onto my transport ships. I've tried using the "Air Transport" type of task force ...

<r> Hi All,<br/>
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New to the forum and to WITP AE. Born '68. Started wargaming as a kid with AH and SPI being my favorite goodies under the Christmas tree. That all changed when we got an Apple II in '83. Ended up an SSI junkie. First Gary Grigsby game I played was Bomb Alley. Oh, my ...

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I have no idea how this aspect of the game was programmed, or what factors the code uses to come up with the number of hits in a particular raid, or how those factors are weighted. However, I do know there are plenty of historical examples from 1942-1945 in the ...

That sure would be cool! And Japanese gliders, too.

John

<t>I'm not sure about the suicide thing, but as I recall, Caidin has Sakai fly his last combat mission against B-29s. In reality, his last fight took place in daylight against a B-32 Dominator. Incidentally, I was at the National Archives a while back and stumbled across a whole bunch of color film ...

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Historically, those 105mm's, or lack of them, caused great angst during the Buna campaign since the 32nd Inf. Division left them behind when they moved up to New Guinea. George Kenney, the commander of the 5th Air Force, convinced MacArthur to let him move one regiment of the ...

Unfortunately, there is no direct translation of any of Sakai's books. The best one available is the Sakai biography written by Henry Sakaida. "Winged Samauri" debunks much of the the things Caidin made up in "Samauri."

JohnB

<t>Here is a quote from the book Samurai that is about Saburo Saki the greatest Japanese fighter pilot to survive World War II. <br/>
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"It was incredible out there today," Tanaka said. "We caught the Fortresses just right, and over and over I pressed home the attacks against the B-17's. At lest ...

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Using Wirraways in the anti-ship role is a very clever idea! I'll have to try that. Historically, though, they were worse than useless as fighters. Keep in mind, the Wirraway has its roots in the AT-6 trainer. <br/>
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The RAAF used Wirraways as artillery spotters and later ...

<t>Tanjman,<br/>
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Boy you are right on with everything you pointed out. The idea that the coastal cities didn't want to douse their lights because it would affect the tourist trade was just sickening. As if the corpses, oil and debris on the beaches weren't going to do that anyway.<br/>
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<t>Good point! The Japanese had no powerful ASW advocates on their general staff between the wars. They were fixated on combat power and the "Decisive Battle" and thus neglected the protection of their lines of communications. It just wasn't glamorous. <br/>
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Unfortunately, the same can be said ...

<t>Historically, in 1942, U.S. Navy submarine operations relied heavily on patrolling very close to Japanese naval bases. A small example:<br/>
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The USS Pollack spent one of its many war patrols running between Japanese naval bases in the Central Pacific. At times, through the periscope, the ...