re: #558 Sheepdogess

In the World War II naval battle of Midway, if things had not happened just the way they did, at just the time they did, the American naval force would not only have lost, but could have been wiped out by the far larger Japanese fleet.

I read this Thomas Sowell piece earlier. He’s right about Midway, in a way, and wrong, in a way. “If things had not happened just the way they did, at just the time they did…” well, actually the initial American torpedo plane attacks were disasters, of course. Not to mention the utterly ineffective B-17 sortie from Midway Island. Our guys only THEN got very lucky, when the Japanese forgot to clear their decks of ordnance after re-arming their attack aircraft.