What Are You Reading?

He did do a war bond tour and some other promotional events, but by mid-1943 he was back in the fleet, on the escort carrier Liscombe Bay. Sadly, she was torpedoed by a submarine during the assault on Makin in November 1943, with most of the crew lost.

The machine gun Miller fired would have been a water-cooled Browning .50. It's been a long time since I saw TTT, but I would guess they used a contemporary weapon, either an air-cooled .50 or a 20mm; I know Pearl Harbor did (I think that was a twin mount).

It may seem surprising in view of the massive anti-aircraft batteries eventually fitted to WWII ships, but in the 1930s the standard close-range armament on modernized battleships and new CA/CLs was just eight .50s. Based on evaluation of early war experience, the King Board of 1940 recommended adding four quad 1.1" mounts; these were just starting to be installed at the time of Pearl Harbor.

 

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Miller was a messman who when off duty used to watch the crew of the 50 Cal AA guns. It's a pure case of visual learning (much like the way some Marines trained the Chinese KMT on how to operate a weapon).

 

Miller was a messman who when off duty used to watch the crew of the 50 Cal AA guns. It's a pure case of visual learning (much like the way some Marines trained the Chinese KMT on how to operate a weapon).

 

Just finished Daughter of the Regiment and now onto Hibbert's Wolfe at Quebec.

In the former, the author remembers how poorly the children sang and the teacher was trying to get the children to open their mouths and not sing through their teeth. Watching in the back was a glaring Geronimo (yes, famous Apache chief in exile). Geronimo walked up and placed himself in front of the children. The children were scared of him (reputation) and if he told them to do something, they listened. "Open mouth! Zing!" The children were shocked into opening their mouths and sang beautifully thereafter.

 

Fallschirmjager by Hermann Ramcke.

Unfortunately Ramcke doesn't cover his entire experience in WW2 and only his activity in Normandy. He does give some insights like Rommel's advance towards El Alamein kept Kesselring from invading Malta. Per Ramcke Kesselring couldn't do both. Most of the book is about his post-war trial.

 

Had to put down Ramcke's book for Joel Bohy's and Douglas Scott's Bullet Strikes: From the First Day of the American Revolution.

 

Don't know if you'd call it "reading."
1949 USNR Register of Officers
Line by line, plucking out naval aviators examining service numbers, rank, dates of next promotion, designators, and so on for the purpose of identifying those on active duty as of 9/2/45, capturing dates of rank after 6/30/44 (previous register was dated 7/1/44) and promotions to LTJG, LT, LCDR, & CDR up to 1/1/46..
In the middle of the M's right now. Pretty mind numbing, can only handle about three hours a day, roughly 5 pages.

 

No, I have a PDF . . . courtesy of Hyperwar of course.

 

That's okay, Larry, I have a system that seems to work alright. Also allows me to double check names and SNs of those I already have listed.
Just time consuming. But, hey, I'm retired and in no hurry and "The Great List of Naval Aviators" is just something to keep me amused.

 

Every morning green tea and cigarette - I like to read-
The Gateway Pundit #1
Zerohedge #2

Check if Candace Owens has any new bits on Youtube.- She has now also discovered Harvey W was a victim! Not the Hwood actress' who decided to fk him for movie parts.
Check if Roseanne has new podcast.
I like to watch Bill Maher Club Random. He talks over his guests, has no table manners, smokes weed that only glows for 1 or 2 puffs. Red shoes.
Only watch for his guests. Check out the one where -Richard Dreyfus slumps in his chair. Liberal hollywood in action. Delicious.
Read that Rosie |O'Donnell moved to Ireland to escape the Donald. Ireland is not too happy about it.
Also read Ellen and her gf decided to move to the UK because of Mr T. Well done Mr T.

 

Also enjoy the utube vids of youngsters watching classic blues/rock etc.

 

Ramcke wrote several other books one of which was recounts his midshipmanship to general officer. That's probably the book that upset Lt. Col. Scotland, the man who labeled Ramcke as a war criminal. It's also why Fallschirmjager didn't recount his experiences in Crete and Africa. He has three books two of which await translation to english:

Fallschirmjager Then and After
From Midshipman to Paratrooper General. This might be the book that got Lt. Col. Scotland angry and resulted in Ramcke being labeled as a war criminal.
From Knight's Cross Holder to Accused. - This may be the book I just finished.

Ramcke mentions that post-war the allies starved to death 1 mil German soldiers. If this happened, it would be during the Morgenthau Plan and before the implementation of the Marshall Plan.

 

Paul Roland's Life After the Third Reich.

 

Bravely Into Battle. About one Canadian's experience in the First Canadian Inf. Div.