[IMG] IWO JIMA: THE STONE QUARRY History books and documentaries about the battle of Iwo Jima concentrate on Mount Suribachi, with its...
Slipdigit: Sorry it took me so long to address your question. I didn’t have a lot of personal contact with Captain Whitehead because he was...
Ensign Sam Sturgis, who qualified on the Sable during World War II, told this great story: An Army Air Corps pilot assigned to Chanute Field...
GREAT LAKES AIRCRAFT CARRIERS The only excuse I can offer for posting the following off-beat story is my own tie-in with the main character –...
HUCKS216 & SPANIARD Maybe aircraft carriers with steel flight decks were OK up in the Scapa Flow area, the North Atlantic Ocean, the...
THE BRITISH FLEET AT OKINAWA I’m sure the subject of British participation in the Pacific theater of war during World War Two has been discussed...
SPANIARD The Iwo Jima photographs by Marine photographer Douglas Page that you incorporated in your previous post were some of the best combat...
Following is a rather lengthy post that I prepared for another forum some time ago. It covers a series of penalties – including the oil embargo...
OpanaPointer: I just couldn’t resist a return post to yours. It jolted me back to World War Two, and to Iwo Jima – where I worked with the...
AUGUST 8th ADDENDUM While surfing the web the other day I found, on some remote website, the post that I made on this forum back in April. (See...
SMLE shooter: I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to tell you that you and I share the same love affair with the Corsair. I worked with a...
MastaCheef117 I hope you’ll forgive me for going into so much detail in an attempt to answer your original questions, but they are questions...
Regarding uses of smoke in battle: Smoke was used quite extensively in the Pacific during World War Two to direct close air strikes on targets....
In my previous post regarding pre-bombardment at Iwo Jima I neglected to include Admiral Blandy’s Command Ship USS Estes AGC-12
The pre-landing naval bombardment at Iwo Jima under the command of Admiral Blandy opened up at 6:40 a.m. on the m0rning of February 19th involved...
Carl Schwamberger I don’t know too much about the broad subject that you’re inquiring about, but I am familiar with one aspect of it that you...
The classic operation of World War Two, which arguably would have determined when an amphibious action ended and a land-based action started – TO...
I listened to Tokyo Rose frequently in 1944 and ‘45 . So did hundreds of thousands of others. If you could take a poll of those World War Two...
