Tag: Pearl Harbor

The aircraft of the Battle of Midway and what each of them actually did. The torpedo that could not be dropped, the folding wing that cost twenty seconds of firing time, the forty minutes Nagumo never had, and the five-minute myth that came out of one book in 1955. Read article

The engineering that made the attack on Pearl Harbor possible, and the reason it failed anyway. The shallow-water torpedo, the three Japanese types, the order that parked the American aircraft in rows, the fourteen pilots who got airborne, and the carriers that were not there. Read article