bravo1102 wrote:
Typical wrong headed thinking you see in battleship groups. The US in June of 1942 did not have a SINGLE battleship to send to Midway.
I think you miss-read what I wrote XD
Quite understandable because I go off on a few things and digress.
I was speaking generally about battleships VS carriers, that info is all correct, also the reason for the use of Aircraft carriers by the US because that was all they had rather than them being the best weapons or ones they wanted for the job.
But yes, you're right of course in that they didn't have any battleships to field for a while after Pearl harbour and none for Midway - I just naturally assumed they did, because I'd never bothered to look into Midway specifically. XD
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I watched Finding Steve McQueen the other night.
It's about the true story of some people who did a bank robbery in the early 1970s that stole money from Nixon indirectly. The guy at the centre of the story loves Steve McQueen and wants to be him… Just a bit of a fan.
It's also a love story with him and a woman he meets in a town he settles down in.
The film is well acted and it's interesting but it's told out of sequence so it's all over the place and hard to follow initially.
The out of sequence this has been a fad for a while and it's really damn annoying. You can become very invested in a story or characters if you can't really follow their development because it's always getting cocklocked.
This is like what I talked about in the tension/conflict threads- the incorrect idea that conflict is all that drives a story. Progress ALSO drives stories, without that things go nowhere and just sit still.