Another River Kwai kwiz
January 2nd, 2009 From
>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:33:12 -0700
>From: Mike Potter
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>I must plead that I recalled the edition date from memory. What
>interested me was that JANE’s accurately described the loss of USS
>=Houston= in an edition clearly published before the war ended. It was
>an original edition, not a reprint, in the University of Michigan
>Engineering Library. If the 1943 edition appeared late in 1944, I might
>have recalled the 1943 edition. But 1944 sticks in my mind as the
>edition.
>
>It appears to me that JANE’s shifted to the 2-year date citation because
>the annuals appeared well into the subsequent year. If the 1944 edition
>appeared similarly late in 1945, then VJ Day could well have occurred
>before press time.
>
>
>Brooks A Rowlett wrote:
> >
> > On the question of the 1944 JANE’s and knowledge of HOUSTON’s exact
> > fate.
> >
> > I have the reprint of the >1944-45> > Jane’s. Is that exactly correct? A 1944 one as distinct from a
> > 1944-45 one? Is 44-45 the volume Jane’s started doing them by the
> > 44-45, 45-46, 46-47….95-96, 96-97, etc. scheme that still applies?
> >
> > That makes a difference, you see, because the collective information
> > in the 1944-45 Jane’s makes it obvious that it was not in fact
> > published until after VJ day. But if there was a 1944 one before the
> > 1944-45 one, then Mike’s question, and Peter Sinfield’s suggested
> > answer, apply.
> >
> > -Brooks A Rowlett
> > brooksar@indy.net