One of the witnesses ashore said the massive explosion aboard the USS Arizona sounded more like a "WHOOM" than a "BANG." The resultant concussion...
I'd go with an s-boat. They are very fast, stable gun platforms in the roughest of seas, you can strap alot of armaments aboard without losing...
San Diego was the home of the Pacific Fleet's main naval and carrier air station training facility and marine recruit training depot. San Pedro,...
If I posessed "Friends in low places" people, independent of US Military control who warned me that a Japanese air attack was a lead pipe cinch...
On Guadalcanal, there were frequent Japanese small attack incursions made into the Marine defense perimeter. In fact, many of the infiltrating...
Page 2. "Between the two attacks and after the 2nd we threw many hand grenades down on the beach. Also the aerial frag bombs were released down...
Her Skipper, Eugene Fluckey was one aggressive warrior who always tried to find ways of taking the war to the enemy. On the Barb's 12th war...
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing!
According to what I've read, each B-25 carried three, five hundred pound, high explosive bombs along with a single 500 lb incendiary bomb that...
When I was in ROTC, we were taught that a live prisoner, no matter what the rank, could be the source of priceless military information, while a...
I believe that Germany would have been much better served had she instead, invested large sums of money in the late 1930's to guarentee the...
The Japanese also had a number of other aircraft carriers that were not being tasked for the Pearl Harbor Operation. They could have called on...
The Japanese would do what they historically did, by seizing airfields in northern Luzon at the beginning of the campaign and putting them to...
One of the 12-inch seacoast mortars of Battery Way was firing at the Japanese invaders at the far end of Corregidor to within minutes of the...
The USS Hornet carried her usual complement of aircraft belowdecks on the approach to Japan. Once the B-25's were on their way to Tokyo, the...
I remember reading about an artillery battery commander in Vietnam who issued the men under his command tommahawks that he bought himself from a...
The P-40's would have had a number of problems as well. In the book "Doomed at the Start", it was shown that the P-40's suffered from two major...
Both of the ex-German Heer soldiers that I knew from my youth expressed the same opinion, while confined to POW cages, that they were fully...
but one that was written by a less than enthused US soldier early in WWII after viewing his hot, dusty, new home in Darwin, Australia. "Red dust...
Keep in mind too that by June, 1942, the improvement of the older battleship's anti-aircraft suite, although not complete, was far improved over...
