I am watching "Conspiracy" on the History Channel - this program discusses the apparent conspiracy by the Roosevelt Administration to allow for the Japanese to attack, allowing America entry into the Second World War.
The dramatic storytellers that they are, they boldly declare that the lunch of the almost three dozen ships, lets loose a deadly attack of some 300 airplanes against the American Naval Base at Honolulu, Hawaii. They further go on to state that this is "the first, entirely carrier-based assault in military history, obliterates the US base . . ."
Does the History Channel not read history? Are they so lazy in that they choose not to do research?
In November of 1940, on the evening of the 11th, 21 Fiery Swordfish, from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, launched the first, carrier-based, air attack in military history.
Read more here: Battle of Taranto
Dumb-asses
Now that I am on the subject on the History Channel's lack thereof, I wish to also state that they got it wrong in the telling of the Sinking of the Bismark. There are other instances, and I am sure that I will not provide them safe harbor, so to speak, and I will make those instances be known as I see fit.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy said: "Ask not what . . .", actually not that one, maybe this one: "A child miseducated is a child lost."
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