History Channel Dogfights - Kamikazes (Season 2 Premiere)

On Jul 16, 11:08?pm, "Jonathan" wrote:
"David E. Powell" wrote in ooglegroups.com...

Really well done.... worth checking out. From the look at the battle
of the USS Laffey (And US air cover of the day, tactics, the ship
herself, etc.) to the stuff on the Okha program to the look at a
German ramming squadron in the last days of the war in Europe, really
well done stuff.

I was stunned the Laffey took all those hits and kept floating.
What was it, four kamikazi and three bomb hits?
And I didn't know they already had radar guided 5 inch
guns'

Seems like Hornet had radar guided guns in 1942.

Walt

In article . com,
Walt wrote:
On Jul 16, 11:08?pm, "Jonathan" wrote:
"David E. Powell" wrote in
messagenews:1184617727.343322.110040@o61g2000hsh. googlegroups.com...

Really well done.... worth checking out. From the look at the battle
of the USS Laffey (And US air cover of the day, tactics, the ship
herself, etc.) to the stuff on the Okha program to the look at a
German ramming squadron in the last days of the war in Europe, really
well done stuff.

I was stunned the Laffey took all those hits and kept floating.
What was it, four kamikazi and three bomb hits?
And I didn't know they already had radar guided 5 inch
guns'

Seems like Hornet had radar guided guns in 1942.

From memory (not got "Radar at Sea" to hand) the first ship with radar
direction for AA fire was one of the RN 'C' class conversions to an AA
cruiser, some time in autumn 1940. By 1941 the sets were going into
Sloops.

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