On February 20, 1942, the Action off Bougainville pitted the carrier USS Lexington against seventeen Japanese bombers from Rabaul in one of the early Pacific War's most lopsided air battles. We trace the full chain of events: Vice Admiral Wilson Brown's aborted raid on Rabaul, the morning interception of Japanese scout planes, and the four-minute dogfight in which Lt. Edward "Butch" O'Hare became America's first flying ace of World War II. We follow the ripple effects through the March 10 strike on Lae-Salamaua, and close with O'Hare's full story — heroism, tragedy, and a legacy still hiding in plain sight at one of America's busiest airports.

In this solo personal essay, Dale argues that American submarines — not the aircraft carriers — won the Pacific War against Japan. It's one sailor, one opinion: the carriers won the headlines at Midway, but the boats did the killing, sinking over half of Japan's fleet and strangling the oil that the Yamato and the whole empire ran on. From the Shinano to Archerfish to Nimitz himself. Come agree, or come fight him about it.

https://discord.gg/fC5EJDR

Why Nuremberg Refused to Sentence Dönitz for Submarine Warfare — And What Fleet Admiral Nimitz's Sworn Testimony Reveals About America's Pacific War?

In this solo personal essay, Dale argues that the United States' unrestricted submarine campaign against Japan in World War Two was legally and morally identical to the German U-boat campaign for which Karl Dönitz was prosecuted at Nuremberg — and that the tribunal's own verdict, shaped by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz's sworn testimony, proves it. Fifty-two submarines lost. Over a thousand merchant ships sunk. One verdict that couldn't say what it meant.

https://discord.gg/dxSvauDb