Comments by "" (@JohnRodriguesPhotographer) on "Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)" video.

  1. There was an action between a destroyer escort and a Japanese submarine, where they were so close the usn sailors were throwing potatoes at the Japanese on their submarine. In the complete confusion of the moment the Japanese were running around and throwing them overboard thinking they were hand grenades!
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  2. The same thing occurred in the battle of the Java sea. The ABDA task force that was decimated by the IJN was Commanded by the Dutch Admiral Dorman. I don't think he had the right kind of experience to be commanding that group of ships. If you look at the size of the Dutch Navy in the interwar years leading up to that moment, how could he? He was in command because he was a senior in rank not because he was qualified. This is not to say that I have something against him as an evil officer I just question his suitability for that command.
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  3. If you can find the legacy game fighting steel, you might have some fun. One of the scenarios that I figured out how to win was the first battle of savo Island. My solution had the benefit of being unique.
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  4. ​ @photonotavailable7936 my your uncle rest in peace.
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  5. LOL!😂
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  6. Just curious Drach, what if any advantages do you see in advancing in a single column by the US Navy? I would think that a column like that would be vulnerable to the enemy crossing your T where is approaching on a broader front would make it more difficult for an enemy to do that to you. What are your thoughts on that? To me it harkens back to the age of sail and the tactic by World War II was almost completely inappropriate.
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  7.  @NefariousKoel  steel thunder reduced your Fleet until you detached your damaged unit. It was pretty cool I won the first Battle of savo Island by doing something totally different. Instead of trying to lay back and rely on my gallery at long range our charge down between the two columns of Japanese ships basically point blank range. Launch torpedoes firing guns the Japanese all were hit and sunk in about a third of my ship sank. I had damage to the rest but the Japanese were done. In one of the harpoon scenarios that I would entertain myself with, the guiak gap, I found that Russian missiles outnumbered my missiles in the standard circular formation. So I rearranged my formation I put all my escorts in a line of breast in front of my two battleships. The only escort that was near the battleships was the ticonderogas. I was able to stop the missile attack pretty much the escort ships taking all the hits. And then I was able to harpoon Kirov and get into guns range. The Russian ships didn't like those 16-in rounds too much! A few times I got my Los Angeles under their formation and decimated it that's an interesting little scenario with a lot of potential outcomes.
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  8. I agree with your dad regarding radar. God bless him
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  9.  @br0k3nman  my concern about Dormann is his lake of experience handling large force and lake of familiarity with the ships in the force. The Netherlands were no longer a naval power at the time.
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  10. I'll agree it could have been a little better. But keep in mind that task group was sent on a suicide mission. Essentially the ships and crews were expendable with the orders they had to proceed under.
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  11. ​ @br0k3nman what I'm saying is the Dutch Navy had very few ships. He was not prepared to command this Force as large as it was. I have no doubt he was a competent officer and a brave man. It was entirely about experience
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  12. It used to be that I had a basic knee jerk reaction to admiral Daniel Callahan. It was a decidedly negative point of view. Now that I am older and hopefully wiser I realize what may have been going through his mind. This is a man who has never seen combat. He essentially gets sent on a suicide mission. From the time he received his the balance of his life could be measured and once action began minutes. He had been trained, but not really for this. He may have been distracted thinking of his wife and family. He shouldn't have been but he's a human being with human emotions not an automaton. Essentially he was ordered once he got his little task group to take it into combat and get it shot to hell and back. He did his duty May admiral Daniel Callaghan rest in peace.
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