The Military History Thread

Should have referenced Call of Duty: Black Ops. It is a fictional take on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Ya have to reach these keeds.

 

1.) It all depends if you believe that Gordon's attack would have had mass success if the orders for the go would have been issued earlier in the day. We do have a common denominator in Ewell, who also delayed at Gettysburg.

2.) Grant wanted to lure Lee out into an open battle. He purposely set out a corps as bait for Lee to attack. I think Grant was attempting to do exactly what you are proposing.

 

Reading books is steadily becoming a good old fashion notion. History was my favorite subject with Geography a near tie. It amazed me to no end around the third or fourth grade as to how many kids couldn't find Tennessee on a map.

 

The state of geography education is shockingly poor. When I was still in TN, we would go into elementary and middle schools to put on interactive lessons on geography. For some, it was the first time they had really thought about geography as a subject.

 

My wife claims to like Oregon, mostly their jerseys, so I bet her she couldn't find Oregon on a map. I pulled up a blank map on my phone and she pointed to Nebraska. Her second guess was right though.

 

Still, Nebraska as a first guess is incredibly bad. That she picked another "football state" means that she probably remembered the shape of both states from some game promo.

 

Bump

 

Why did the Oklahoma capsize?

Larger warhead on a torpedo?

Delivery system?

Midget submarine make it into the Harbor?

 

I see you must have watched the same documentary I did a few weeks ago.

 

It took on water.

 

The midget submarine theory is fascinating

 

So did other battleships

 

Use Taranto as a comparison

The Oklahoma is the anomaly

 

Not as much water.

 

Well, the Nevada ran itself aground to prevent blocking the harbor, and the Arizona just got ripped basically in half.

 

West Virginia, Tennessee, California and Maryland?

 

Right, why?

 

It was an older, Nevada class battleship.

 

So was every other battleship that was there

Save the Utah

 

Incorrect.