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From: Ben Howard
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Merlin Dorfman wrote in message <8n2oic$48s$8@slb6.atl.mindspring.net>...
>     But the point is that aircraft were only a small part of the
>pre-invasion bombardment of Iwo.  Most of it was by naval guns.
>A 16 inch HC shell weighs over a ton, and a full salvo is eight
>or nine shells.  Salvos can be repeated every 30 seconds,
>indefinitely.


    yeesh.  i'll repeat the words HYPOTHETICAL and MODERN.  There is no
doubt that we pounded the hell out of Iwo Jima when we invaded, in the PAST.
The airpower we had available THEN, compared to what we have NOW, was
simple.  Since the modern navy has no battleship guns anymore, John
Childress postulates that we are ill-prepared to invade a defended beach a
la Iwo Jima, Normandy.  I disagree, my point being that the amount of
explosive we could drop on Iwo Jima (or ANY beach) with B-52s and B-1s using
saturation-bombing methods would preclude the need for precision shelling
from naval batteries.  Of course this isn't the best way to do it, but it is
one way.

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From: "Ben Howard" <?bhoward*hatescrapmail*at?bga!daht!cahm!>
Subject: Re: air supremacy, etc...
Date: 2000/08/12
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