ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
But your Japanese is impeccable now, right?[;)]
Nice stuff.[&o]
Hai! Ichi ban hanchô Shannon san [&o]
Moderator: Shannon V. OKeets
ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
But your Japanese is impeccable now, right?[;)]
Nice stuff.[&o]
I believe it is the offical list of the nation's ships - referred to simply as "the list". Stricken from the list(s) means it is no longer considered part of the nation's navy. The opposite end of being commissioned.ORIGINAL: Toed
Amazing work Mziln. One quick question. This keeps ending the writeups ...X was removend from the list in... What list? Just curious.
Japanese ships used Pennant numbers too ?ORIGINAL: Mziln
Steve is right it is the navys list of commissioned ships.
The number, such as Langley (CV-1), is called the "pennant number" of the ship.
The name pennant number (sometimes referred to as pendant numbers) is used because ships were originally allocated a pennant (flag) identifying their flotilla or a particular type of vessel. The pennant number consists of letters and numbers this way ships can be uniquely identified.
I included this for the US an CW because there were duplicate named ships with different pennant numbers.
I didn't do this for the Japanese because there were no duplicate named ships and to avoid confusion.
ORIGINAL: Froonp
Japanese ships used Pennant numbers too ?ORIGINAL: Mziln
Steve is right it is the navys list of commissioned ships.
The number, such as Langley (CV-1), is called the "pennant number" of the ship.
The name pennant number (sometimes referred to as pendant numbers) is used because ships were originally allocated a pennant (flag) identifying their flotilla or a particular type of vessel. The pennant number consists of letters and numbers this way ships can be uniquely identified.
I included this for the US an CW because there were duplicate named ships with different pennant numbers.
I didn't do this for the Japanese because there were no duplicate named ships and to avoid confusion.
I would be interested with a list of those numbers and the ships associated. For curiosity.
Mziln, thanks for the splendid research about the Japanese ships. I did not read them all, only a couple, and this is very good. Each of those put the designated ship into perspective as if it was the center of the world, and you re live its career. Great !
Nice, but delete "often knee-jerk" as it is redundant and inflamatory.ORIGINAL: composer99
Couple of suggestions with regards to this write-up (with a view to avoiding over-generalizations while also not being too neutering):
(1) Replace "The Palestinian Jews [...]" with "A number of Jews, both long-established locals and recent immigrants from Europe, [...]". A lot of the "Palestinian" (that is, Sephardic/Arabic) Jews were neither Zionists nor particularly pro-British (then again, few Arabs of any religion were at the time), and a fair few of the Ashkenazi immigrants from Europe had rather anti-British views as well (although as they were Zionists it was for a different reason than the Arab population).
(2) Replace "The Palestinian Muslims" with "Many Palestinian Arabs", as Palestine contained substantial Arab Christian and Jewish populations at the time. I would also substitute "were siding with the Germans" with "took a pro-German position." and then delete the rest of the paragraph and replace it with the following:
"The Palestinian position was influenced by their nascent nationalism and its accompanying resentment of British colonial rule, their reflexive and often knee-jerk anti-immigrant sentiment, common enough to other national and ethnic groups at the time, with regards to the recent influx of European Jews, and in some cases, such as with the Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al Husseini, anti-Jewish animosity of the sort that had emerged in Europe over the previous half-century (and had led to the increased migration of Jews to Palestine in the first place)."
Perhaps a new screen shot with the revised wording would help at this point.ORIGINAL: capitan
Nice! Thank you, it is not exactly my speciality and it is a minefield to find the right wording. I did as per Steves suggestion remove knee-jerk. Any other changes needed? Lets make it right! [:)]
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Capitan
A big thanks for posting my first two write ups so quickly. My next write up will be XXX Corps which, given its extensive WWII combat history will give me far more to write about - what a great Unit!. Before I get carried completely carried away, is there a maximum length for these write ups?
Rgds
Warspite1