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Warship Wednesday: Torpedo Bombing
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, my Usurper’s War series. The books of this series focus heavily on naval combat, reflecting an…
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Warship Wednesday: No Easy Days (Carrier Ops)
Greetings everyone! I was perusing YouTube and came upon Ward Carroll’s channel. The title comes from an old saying about carrier aviation: “There are no easy days.” Carrier ops are inherently dangerous, as the “airfield” is moving in three directions. As most of you know, I’ve covered carrier operations just a few times. Or more. However,…
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Warship Museum Hopping Prelude (Warship Wednesday)
That One Summer… Sorry it’s been a bit. Seems like just a blink of the eye I was talking about The Strategic Air Campaign and getting ready to go on a jaunt across the South to visit warship museums. Well the jaunt happened: These are all the museums I visited from 30 May – 7…
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Big Historical Find
For those of you familiar with the Pacific Theater, Admiral Chester Nimitz’s “Graybook” is available online in all its .pdf glory. For those less familiar, this is basically Admiral Nimitz’s complete war diary from assumption of command until victory of Japan. Go check it out if you get a chance. Also, had to take a…
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Warship Wednesday–Decking the Hulls (Carrier Doctrine #2)
As you guys may have noticed, I am completely willing to lean on the works of others. With that in mind, for today’s discussion, we’ll talk about a topic which as absorbed much ink: decks. Specifically, armored vs. unarmored iterations thereof. So, without further ado, I’ll turn it over to the video host Drachinifel and…
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Warship Wednesday–Territories and Mission
If you ever wonder just how crazy things got towards the end of the Washington Naval Treaty, look no further than the Alaska-class large cruisers. I’m going to let the always excellent Drachnifel give a quick rundown of the vessels here: Unlike the poster (and it’s a lovely series), I’ve never been of the school…
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Warship Wednesday: Fun With Turrets
Thanks to the U.S.S. Iowa for filming this interior of the 16-inch turrets. In the case of the Iowa and many other late war ships, each gun could elevate and fire independently. Bonus: Here is a World War II-era training video. As an author, as I watched this I realized just how many things could get knocked…
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Warship Wednesday–Carrier Doctrine #1
Interesting thing I discovered about carrier doctrine in writing the Usurper’s War series in general, but definitely with regards to Against the Tide Imperial: The three main carrier navies in our timeline did things very, very differently. The USN basically went all in on “every carrier throws a haymaker.” This was shown both in early task…
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Warship Wednesday–Death of a Prince
It is my intent to do a 2019 Year In Review blog post at some point before the end of the month. Until then, feel free to read some in-depth analysis of the Prince of Wales‘ loss. Much like reading an autopsy report will tell you quite a bit about how the human body fails, this…
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Some people need no introduction…
”Those in Peril presents some intriguing concepts by reshuffling naval history’s deck of cards. The US and Royal navies on opposite sides in World War I, and contending along our east coast 10 years later. Then the U.S. allied with Japan in “The Oahu Pact” during the next world war. Along the way we see…
