[RAFleischman]

Thanks for the update Don. I always enjoy hearing about what you are teaching.

One of my recent non-modeling accomplishments is to finally buy myself a decent bookshelf. I had books stacked everywhere! Two and a half shelves of WW2 books with most of them about the Pacific war.

I've been struggling through War Plan Orange by Edward Miller. He goes into great detail about the people who wrote the plans and the plans themselves, but never really puts the plans into the context of the political situation between the US and Japan, or the weapons systems to be used in the war. It pales in comparison to Kaigun.

Perhaps I should stop reading and get building!! (Is there a Hellcat in my future??!!)

russ...