One of my earliest memories is of the blimp hangars at Moffett Field, especially Hangar 1. We were there in 1954-55 when my father commanded...
I've a nice list of USN backseat radio-gunners credits. Tend to be pretty much one on one, though a few are multiple gunners shooting at one...
If that's the way you received the jacket from the gent or his estate, I'd presume that's the way he set up his ribbon bars. Is it correct? Not...
Surprisingly to many, a majority of AVG pilots were former naval aviators. My father, an Ensign and a pilot in VF-42 on USS Ranger when the AVG...
One generally tries to avoid using radio callsigns that would identify an actual unit or, perhaps, even one's mission, hence the 4V58 rather than,...
I see where the Grim Economics write up has been mentioned. Overall, Tony Tully's Combined Fleet site is a treasure trove of information...
FDR library has, literally, a ton of documents . . . most of the really good stuff is buried in the Map Room papers, which are here: Franklin D....
Rainwater, Lowell E (3556423), RM1c, USN, USS Helena received aboard from Receiving Ship New York for duty 18 Sep 1939, last enlistment noted as...
Hurricane, too, a robust fuselage and look at the structure of the tail.
Mikey refuses to read the Magic intercepts because he knows those messages are just chock full of official pronouncements of surrender not being...
There is no treason here folks. Treason is a crime specifically spelled in the US Constitution. If events and persons do not rise to the...
Timmy, you need to get it through your head that no one gives a rat's patooty what you post since all you post are the half truths and out right...
And what everyone fails to mention is that the wonderful scrambler phone between Washington and Oahu was a RADIOSCRAMBLER PHONE which suffered not...
Jeez-o-flip. Mikey is back with more obfuscation, lies and distortions. What's the matter, Mikey, are you scared of the entire story so that why...
Some, not all, depending on squadron and to which carrier assigned, Fleet Air Arm F4Us were, indeed, modified with a shortened, or clipped, wing....
Not that you will, but I'd suggest you read "Truman and the Hiroshima Cult," which roundly shows the lie of your thesis. So, Mikey, you can...
and here is apparently another look [ATTACH] Which I belatedly discovered was flipped. Above is corrected perspective.
CO of USS Sicily at the time was Capt John S "Jimmie" Thach. Yes, that Jimmie Thach.
And I saved a copy for me! Thanks, Larry!
If you always tell the truth, the whole truth, you never have to remember what you said.
