Comments on: “Nerve Center” Guards New York (Oct, 1941)

By: beagledad

beagledad — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:59:03 +0000

Correction, the German navy was negligible except for the U-boats — but U-boats posed no threat of aerial bombardment (despite what you might read in some articles at this site).

By: beagledad

beagledad — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:57:01 +0000

A good percentage of the staff used in similar facilities in England (which actually were put to use, of course) during WW II were women.

My question is, from what airfield would enemy bombers attack New York in 1941? At the time, German bombers were hard-pressed to make it from France to London and back. Was someone expecting Greenland to join up with the Axis powers? Germany’s navy was negligible, so a carrier attack in the Atlantic wasn’t in the offing. Looks to me like there’s an allocation of resources issue here. Maybe they should have put more of the air-intercept assets farther west, like maybe in Hawaii . . .

By: jayessell

jayessell — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:33:18 +0000

A good percentage of the staff appear to be women.

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:10:38 +0000

Enemy bombers, yes.

But were they able to defend against the onslaught of Enemy Walking Sponges!