Call for change input

[Captain Cruft]

I would propose keeping the small amounts of Australian intrinsic auto-oil but also adding some to the Middle East base. Oil was definitely produced there obviously. It can help feed the industry in India.

As for intrinsic auto-supply on the West Coast, I am now two weeks into January in my test and both SF and LA will be full up soon. This is with moving it out as fast as I get ships to do it. PH is not short either. I just don't think it's necessary. Move the source to the United States base and let LCUs and airgroups pull it to the ports over rail when they need it. I suspect if you removed it completely you'd still have more than enough supply - the US doesn't need it for expanding/repairing industry like Japan does.

[m10bob]

If there are any empty spaces for Allied aircraft,I would like to see the inclusion of the American Douglas C 54.
This plane was a contemporary of the Douglas DC 3 and was designed back in the mid 30's.The prototypes first flew in 1938,and once this model was re-designed with a single tail,was ordered by Eastern and United airlines.The improved prototype flew on 14 Feb 1942,but since Pearl Harbor,all transport aircraft in the U.S. were diverted to the military.
By the end of the war,many had been built as C 54's and R5D Skymasters.(Nearly 1000 by the end of WW2 and most served in the Pacific !
The range of this plane fits in very well with Andrew Brown's "corrected" distances.
Specs:cruising speed:227 mph at 10,000 ft...service ceiling:22,300 ft....range with max payload of 12,700 lbs:2140 miles...(range was closer to 2500 miles with smaller payload).
Source:Airliners from 1919 to present day,by Kenneth Munson,Peerage Books,London,1972..
http://www.korean-war.com/KWAircraft/Co ... s_c54.html
http://www.military.cz/usa/air/war/tran ... c54_en.htm
http://www.warbirdalley.com/c54.htm

[bstarr]

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

Now, to the interesting part. I can find no data on the cargo of the Ludington. There was a U.S. Army Transport of this name, launched in 1920 and in Army service between the wars and that could be the ship. I can not find her location 12/7/41 nor any of her wartime history except for an undated photograph of her entering San Francisco.

I can't find Ludington in Morison's appendix, which is supposed to list all ships involved in WWII. Are you sure she wasn't deactivated or maybe renamed before the war?

I also found out that PC-1079 (of the PC-465 class) was named Ludington after the war. Reckon there's some confusion there? here's that page - http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/l33/ludington.htm

[Don Bowen]

Ludington was as U.S. Army Transport - which maybe why it is omitted. She was a U.S. Army owned vessel (as opposed to chartered or allocated) and was in service between the wars and throughout World War II.

8,266 Gross Tons, 439' x 60' x 37', Turbines, 3000 HP. Built by Pusey and Jones, Gloucester, NJ, 1920. Scrapped 1947.

[bstarr]

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen


Ludington was as U.S. Army Transport - which maybe why it is omitted. She was a U.S. Army owned vessel (as opposed to chartered or allocated) and was in service between the wars and throughout World War II.

8,266 Gross Tons, 439' x 60' x 37', Turbines, 3000 HP. Built by Pusey and Jones, Gloucester, NJ, 1920. Scrapped 1947.

Ohhhh . . . army. That would explain why she's as AK-37, but Haze Grey skips that number (and a few more).

[Jo van der Pluym]

I am reading a Book about the Armor in the Pacific.

And there read I that the Chinese had the 20th Mechanized Division from the medio thirthies. And this Division was in 1942 in Action near Burma.
They where equiped with T-26.

[Akizuki]

I am missing some 127 purposebuild japanese landingships :

APD 1500t T-1 class 22 build
LSM 800t SS-1-ES class 22 build
LST 900t T-101 SBD class 6 build
LST 1000t T-103 SBT class 45 build
LST 900t SB-101 class 22 build
LSV 9000t Shiushu maru (The world first assaultship)
LSD 7000t Mayasan maru 3 build
LSD 10500t Kibitsu maru 3+1 build
LSV 11800t Akitsu maru 2 build
LSV 8000t Kumano maru

Other ships:

NK:
AE 9500t Irako maru
AK 15800t Mamiya class 2 build

KNO:
ML 1200?t Willem van der Zaan

And correcting the drawings of:

CA London (the bridge is wrong)
AV Akitsushima

[Don Bowen]

ORIGINAL: Akizuki

I am missing some 127 purposebuild japanese landingships :

APD 1500t T-1 class 22 build
LSM 800t SS-1-ES class 22 build
LST 900t T-101 SBD class 6 build
LST 1000t T-103 SBT class 45 build
LST 900t SB-101 class 22 build
LSV 9000t Shiushu maru (The world first assaultship)
LSD 7000t Mayasan maru 3 build
LSD 10500t Kibitsu maru 3+1 build
LSV 11800t Akitsu maru 2 build
LSV 8000t Kumano maru

Other ships:

NK:
AE 9500t Irako maru
AK 15800t Mamiya class 2 build

KNO:
ML 1200?t Willem van der Zaan

And correcting the drawings of:

CA London (the bridge is wrong)
AV Akitsushima

Am I missing something? All (or almost all) of these ships are in CHS.

I can not speak to the accuracy of the drawings.

[Jo van der Pluym]

ORIGINAL: Jo van der Pluym

I am reading a Book about the Armor in the Pacific.

And there read I that the Chinese had the 20th Mechanized Division from the medio thirthies. And this Division was in 1942 in Action near Burma.
They where equiped with T-26.

Sorry, but i have made a little type error. It's not the 20th but the 200th Mechanized Division. It exist out 1 Tank and 1 Motorized Infantry Regiment.