Eugen Pinak

@war_kot54008 Thank you. Will search the voume.

@EugenPinak Zawsze robię notatki kiedy coś czytam. Dane pochodzą z tekstu rozdziału opisującego potencjał Nihon Kaigun w momencie rozpoczęcia wojny. Opisano siły powietrzne, siły morskie i liczebność personelu. Obecnie nie mam pojęcia na której dokładnie to jest stronie.

Zaczynam odsłuch.

@war_kot54008 As far as I know, this is authorized strength, not actual strength of the IJN Air Force. Can you tell me the page of volume 88 this data is from?

PWH określa siłę US Navy w grudniu 1941 (7:00) w tym lotnictwo na prawie 3000 samolotów bojowych. Porównajmy to do lotnictwa Nihon Kaigun. Według Senshi Sōsho numer 88: 519 s. myśl. 257 s. bomb. 955 s. szturm. 439 s. rozp. 38 s. transp. 66 ł. lat. 928 s. szk. i tren. = 3202

@SpitfirevsBf109 @battle_order 1939 Polish infantry platoon had 65 men 😉

@battle_order No way one LT could have handled this herd. One of the strengths of the 1944 Airborne was that their platoons had two LTs (improving the odds of at least one getting off the DZ).

You've heard of the Pentomic Division, but how about the Hexagonal Platoon? (This sort of historical structure is why the U.S. has sections as a [••] echelon larger the [•] squad, aside from its utility with weapons sections)

The Imperial Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet conducted a survey on preferences for aviation bento (boxed meals eaten inside the aircraft during flight).

@MoFMoF_san @Grze_Jez 詳細な情報を提供していただき、誠にありがとうございました。

@Grze_Jez @EugenPinak 土方（ひじかた）中尉の航空記録はこれで全部です。土方さんは空戦では未熟者である事を自覚していて、自分より階級が低くても実戦経験のある者に空戦のコツを細かく質問していました。プライドが邪魔してなかなかできない事です。203空で九州沖の航空戦を生き残りました

第二次世界大戦中にパイロットを養成するために必要な飛行時間数を探しています。 陸軍と海軍航空隊の両方について知りたいです。 できればデータの出典も教えていただけると助かります。 どなたかご存知の方はいらっしゃいますか？

Japan carried out rescue missions for their pilots too! Pictured here is Gunboat Katata's Naval Landing Force dispatched to rescue a pilot that crash landed in 1938. Obviously the ability to carry out such missions greatly diminished during the war.

@garyandglendah1 Yes, armor allocation is obviously incorrect. There were IJA plans to add tankette companies to infantry divisions, but not companies of medium tanks. Engineer regiment organization is also incorrect.

The armoured element seems overly generous. I don’t think there were more than a few hundred tanks in the entire Japanese army In Manchuria. 1939 The battle at Nomonhan cost the Japanese nearly two hundred tanks and tankettes. At that point the Japanese high command withdrew the Armour brigades, for fear they would lose their entire reserve. Once they withdrew the Soviet armor found their courage, and tore the Japanese infantry to shreds. Due to the Japanese infantries lack of tanks. Obviously their anti tank weaponry was not up to the task. BT-7 Soviet, 40mm gun.

Japanese infantry division in 1938, peacetime organization as seen by Soviet intelligence. #ORBATBoys

@hoshiryuusa_ @battle_order "Inkscape" free SVG editor and my OOB graphic, developed from original graphic by @battle_order

@EugenPinak @battle_order What was used to make that type of ORBAT?

@kindaveryfurry Well, actually cavalry was the weakest link of the IJA. Too few horses to built good cavalry.

@EugenPinak I DON'T want to fight that

Additional data on IJN fighter pilot training hours.

@MoFMoF_san どうもありがとうございます！

@EugenPinak 「海軍予備学生零戦空戦記」によりますと 練習機教程（93中練） 同乗飛行：83回、28時間15分 単独飛行：22回、5時間55分 合計　105回、34時間10分 実用機教程（96戦・零戦） 96回　45時間5分（機種転換・基地移動で通常より長い） 期間9カ月だそうです

@RX2662 @kantaidoge1999 Unfortunately. That is why I don't mind, if you will reply to me in Japanese.

@EugenPinak @kantaidoge1999 Furthermore, online automatic translation functions, including AI, are still far too inadequate for us to discuss these kinds of topics.

At it's now _2_ April, we can think about better use of IJN Oyodo and its sistership Niyodo for real 😉 A thread > Oyodo-class to carry 6 hight-speed recon E15K Shiun = 紫雲. Seaplane carriers Chitose, Chiyoda, Nisshin could carry some ... >

@RX2662 @kantaidoge1999 Understood. Thanks to you two, I've learned something new today. Because I was sure that all new Japanese seaplane fighter aircraft were designed first and foremost for use aboard ships. But opposite was true.

@EugenPinak @kantaidoge1999 The translation function is no good. It should be "seaFighter," not "seaplanes."

@RX2662 @kantaidoge1999 Plans for ALL seaplanes? New seaplanes were to be used only from the land bases?

@EugenPinak @kantaidoge1999 Plans for seaplanes designed after 1940 did not take into account launching from a ship.

@6zzOp This photo of "Soryu" was made during Indian Ocean operation?

1942年4月5日21:58 セイロン沖海戦 機動部隊参謀は四日及び五日の総合戦果を隊内に信号。 この日、九七式艦攻の兵装転換は最初の爆装予定から雷装へ、更に爆装再び雷装と転換した問題があったが、敵重巡洋艦二隻撃沈の戦果の影に隠れ、大きな問題点として取り上げられず。

@RX2662 @kantaidoge1999 I see. And I was sure A6M2-N was made with catapult launch in mind. @kantaidoge1999 , @RX2662 - thank you for the clarification.

@kantaidoge1999 @EugenPinak This is a bit of a digression, but perhaps it's not included in the specifications, so it's not being done, but it might be possible if they wanted to do it. However, there haven't been any requests for it.

@kantaidoge1999 @RX2662 So A6M2-N on those ships were only lowered to the water and took off from it?

@EugenPinak @RX2662 Due to structural limitations, the A6M2-N couldn't take off using a catapult. In fact, this photo shows the Kamikawa Maru transporting A6M2-Ns.Likewise, the N1K couldn't use a catapult either for the same reason.

Prices of various items in canteen of the 54th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese 17th Division, located around Xuzhou, China, in 1943.

@kantaidoge1999 @RX2662 A6M2-N operated from Kamikawa Maru and Kimikawa Manu. Including catapult launches. See photo of Kamikawa Maru:

@EugenPinak @RX2662 The E16A Zuiun can take off using a catapult, but I'm not sure if the A6M2-N Type 2 seaplane fighter and N1K Kyofu can use a catapult because they've never been on a ship