by James Young | Aug 10, 2022 | Air Warfare, Alternate History, Warship Wednesday
We’re going to resume Warship Wednesday by talking a bit about torpedo bombing. For those of you who may have stumbled upon this blog due to recent publications or pure happenstance, my primary bread and butter is alternate history. Specifically,...
by James Young | Mar 11, 2022 | Air Warfare, Promotions and Interviews, Writing Business
Greetings all! Popping in really quick to announce the release of Eagles, Ravens, and Other Birds of Prey (Amazon affiliate link). If you were a fan of Barren SEAD, like to read about Wild Weasels, and/or want to get an account of how the USAF got its groove back,...
by James Young | Dec 7, 2021 | Air Warfare, Alternate History
For those of us of a certain age, it seems like “just yesterday” that we were passing Pearl Harbor’s 50th Anniversary. We had a World War II veteran as President, had seemingly just shook off our “Vietnam Syndrome” with a decisive victory...
by James Young | May 23, 2021 | Air Warfare
Badasses, Part II: The Shooters As discussed in the last segment, in February 1944 General Carl Spaatz and his subordinate, Major General Jimmy Doolittle, decided it was time to take the fight to the Luftwaffe. However, deciding to go kick a whole hostile air...
by jamesyoung | Jan 3, 2021 | Air Warfare
You ever get a little distracted working on other projects (i.e., 3 anthologies and a full novel) and neglect an earlier project? Until I looked at the dates, there was no way I thought it’d been a over a year since I last wrote on air combat (Part I, Part II,...
by jamesyoung | Nov 22, 2020 | Air Warfare
For old school fans of TF 1942 and various other World War II games, here is an update from the folks at Task Force Admiral. I’m glad to see that the game is getting a modern reboot, as I spent many hours playing the original. Really looking forward to carrier...
