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Originally Posted by Jukka Juutinen
Had I asked "Did Saburo Sakai take off at 12.00 hrs or 12.01 hrs on date X" the answers would be pouring in, I guess.
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It's an interesting comment about the different personalities of the two fora, which is a pretty clear difference IMO besides the fact one's original focus is LW and one Japanese air arms. Here most posts are about ops/losses/tail numbers LW v Allies this or that day, on J-a majority of posts are on model plane building. J-a doesn't have anywhere near as much about when Sakai took off as this forum does about when some LW guy took off. J has some aeronautical engineering discussion (you contribute to), relatively rare on TOCH even about LW planes. I enjoy most the bit broader (than one day or one pilot) operational discussions on both. I wish both had more of a tendency to compare and contrast between air wars on the same high level they discuss their specialities, but that's not common on either one. Relative lack of activity on this sub forum tends to illustrate that, there just aren't that many people intensely interested in both, apparently. On TOCH esp the main people seem to have a pretty rigid idea of "off topic", if you relate something to an air war outside WWII LW and opponents, it's irrelevant.
Anyway I enjoy lurking and occasionally contributing on both, taking each for what it is (I wish J-a would adopt this software format though).
Joe