William E. G. Taylor entered flight training in July 1926 and was designated Naval Aviator # 4407 in March 1927. Was appointed Ensign, USNR and...
Wrong Yorktown, Larry. Looking at CV-5.
Don't know anything about MACH Oscar W Myers being aboard USS Enterprise. By the time the Battle of the Coral Sea rolled around, he had been...
Indigenous spotter
Nice shots. The yellow (and in some air groups, white) cowl was a temporary identifier used in the first raids on the Japanese home islands in...
Whatever number of Japanese planes lost aboard carriers, or even simply dropping into the ocean from fuel exhaustion with no where to land, at the...
Apples and oranges. Aircraft lost aboard a carrier, sinking, combat damage, storm damage, operational damage, doesn't matter, they are are not...
The bottom line on copyright of photographs is that if someone goes out and take photos of whatever as a course of his/her assigned duty, then...
It's a little hard to get the full report. I've seen at least one version floating about but without the pictures and I can't find it now. I got...
Larry, when I looked there I didn't see No 23, though s'truth my eyes are wearing out.
oh, come on spill the beans, but only because I'm only vaguely aware that there was a war in Europe. Not to mention the B-17 looks like a...
Well. Here’s a squib of an article, though it really doesn’t tell you much Battle of Midway: Repairing the Yorktown After the Battle of the Coral...
Lewis just made the Christmas list. Larry, have you looked at Robert Maddox's Hiroshima in History - The Myths of Revisionism? Kind of short,...
Well, that is certainly a surprise.
Okay, you can have it your way, but, and just my opinion, mind you, you are straw-grasping to make some point not related to the original...
Maybe, if it wasn't hauling a 2000 lbs torpedo and loaded or not would have been lunch meat for the contemporary F4Fs wandering about the North...
Oh, yes, all 12 of them to 708 squadron, Mk II's, a test/trials unit, not a combat unit, at RNAS at Lee-on-Solent, a service which apparently...
Yes, but the Blackburn Firebrand did not enter active squadron service until September 1945 after a long, long incubation and never saw combat....
Mildly interesting A recipe for obsolescence? British naval torpedo bomber development in the 1930s
None of which couldn't haul torpedoes, nor, without a lot of re-working, which was eventually done, could these "excellent monoplane fighters"...
