Military History

Source: http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/10/03/naval...ailable-online/ it's always great when such document become available, cheers, Jan

At least is a naval site unknown to me some minutes ago, at least this HMS Illustrious and derivatives entry is very complete and interesting: http://navalistica.com/index.php/royal-navy-united-kingdom/19-ukcv/151-2105-illustrious-fleet-aircraft-carriers-1940-1941

By Rick Campbell, St. Martinâs Press, New York, NY (2017) Reviewed by William H. White Having read and reviewed one or two of his previous tales, Cdr. Rick Campbell’s latest, BLACKMAIL is in my opinion, his best by a long shot. And unfortunately, it is, in large part, the most credible. While Campbellâs background is in submarines, they are only a part of the action in this book, augmenting both the land-based and carrier portions of this action-packed thriller. The premise, without giving too much away, is essentially World War III set mainly in the Arabian Sea â at least for the ship and battle scenes. The action moves logically and fluidly ashore when necessary, aid…

By Rick Campbell, St. Martins Press, New York, NY (2014) Reviewed by Capt. Roger F. Jones, USN (Ret.) Retired Navy submarine officer and author Rick Campbell offers an exciting story of how a US Navy Trident nuclear sub, the USS Kentucky, is given falsified orders to launch all twenty-four of its nuclear missiles at Iran. However, these orders are fraudulent. They were not issued by the President of the United States, but by a cabal of rogue agents in Israel and America instead. The work of these agents extends to the Kentucky, whose communication equipment was altered to prevent a recall order, in the almost certain event that the deception will be uncovered before the…

This June, the Naval Historical Foundation once again had the opportunity to engage with young scholars at the National History Day Awards Ceremony in College Park, MD. On hand to represent NHF was life member and volunteer Dr. Charles Chadbourn of the Naval War College. We were very pleased to present the Captain Kenneth Coskey National History Day Prize for the best entry on naval history to high school junior Maria Sutton of Padua Academy in Wilmington, DE. Her paper was titled “The Sinking of the USS Maine: A Turning Point in American Foreign Policy.” Each year since 1999, we have awarded a $500 prize to the high school or middle school history project that best captu…

LCDR Michael “Pyscho” McLeod, USN (Ret) adjusts the FJ-4B Fury model during its installation in the Cold War Gallery. The first thing visitors see when they walk through the doors of the Navy Museum’s Cold War Gallery is the massive Trident I C-4 Missile. Looking left, an impressive glass case sits right next to the Ready Room Theater. The case houses a wide array of 1:48 scale models of aircraft developed and flown during the Cold War era. Once complete, this collection will include nearly forty models that highlight the history and achievements of modern naval aviation.World-class model builder and retired naval aviator LCDR Michael âPsychoâ McLeod recently added fo…

VADM Mark “MRT” Fox tells the story of how he scored the first MiG kill of Operation Desert Storm on January 17, 1991. View our full Second Saturday Webinar HERE. The post Blog first appeared on Naval Historical Foundation. View the full article

By J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John F. Di Virgilio, Naval Institute Press (2022) Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb, Ph.D. This is the fourth volume in the Pearl Harbor Tactical Series published by the Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. The previous three volumes are No One Avoided Danger: NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941 (2015); This is No Drill: The History of NAS Pearl Harbor and the Japanese Attacks of 7 December 1941 (2018); and They’re Killing My Boys: The History of Hickam Field and the Attacks of 7 December 1941 (2019) previously reviewed by me in 2020: navyhistory.org/2020/12/pearl-harbor-tactical-studies-series/ …

By J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John F. Di Virgilio, Naval Institute Press (2022) Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb, Ph.D. This is the fourth volume in the Pearl Harbor Tactical Series published by the Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. The previous three volumes are No One Avoided Danger: NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941 (2015); This is No Drill: The History of NAS Pearl Harbor and the Japanese Attacks of 7 December 1941 (2018); and They’re Killing My Boys: The History of Hickam Field and the Attacks of 7 December 1941 (2019) previously reviewed by me in 2020: www.navyhistory.org/2020/12/pearl-harbor-tactical-studies-series…

Reviewed by Jeff Schultz Mariano Sciaroni and Andy Smith’s “Go Find Him and Bring Me Back His Hat”: The Royal Navy’s Anti-Submarine Campaign in the Falklands/Malvinas War is an important look at the relatively obscure rivalry between a few Argentine diesel submarines and the Royal Navy’s anti-submarine defenses such as helicopters, warships and the Royal Air Force’s maritime patrol aircraft which tried to limit the threat to the Task Force vessels as they transited to the disputed islands. Most related books focus on the land and air aspects of the war instead of the exhausting battle above and beneath the sea fought by tired crews trying to find elusive diesel subma…

to our NHF board member, then-Secretary of the Navy, John F. Lehman. View the full webinar top-gun-annual-leighton-lecture/”>HERE. The post Blog first appeared on Naval Historical Foundation. View the full article

Top Gun student, then-Lieutenant Slapshot Carter on working with Tom Cruise on the first Top Gun movie, along with the Navy pilots, air crew, and public affairs advisors who also supported the movie., with special thanks to our NHF board member, then-Secretary of the Navy, John F. Lehman. View the full webinar HERE. The post Blog first appeared on Naval Historical Foundation. View the full article

Two students and seven teachers from around the country were awarded prizes by the Naval Historical Foundation (NHF) for outstanding projects with naval/maritime themes in the annual National History Day (NHD) competition that concluded June 19. Winners of the coveted NHF Coskey Prizes for Naval History were Jessie Henderson of Bradley Central High School in Cleveland, TN, and Rebecca Bemiss of John F. Kennedy Middle School in Plantsville, CT. Ms. Henderson’s project was a Senior Individual Documentary entitled, “Aerographer’s Mates: Communicating Weather from Sea to Shining Sea.” Ms. Bemiss’s entry was a Junior Individual Performance, “Mavis Batty and the Geese That…

The Commodore Dudley Knox Medal Presentation Luncheon at the Army Navy Country Club (Arlington, VA) on Thursday, 25 August 2022. We will be honoring historians Donald Bittner and Norman Friedman! Details to follow! The post 2022 Knox Medal Presentation — Save the Date first appeared on Naval Historical Foundation. View the full article

Dear Naval Historical Foundation Board Members: Attached you will find a series of documents to be reviewed prior to our Board Meeting on Saturday, 11 June 20122. We look forward to seeing you virtually and briefing you on the latest developments. You can find information about the Annual Meeting and Leighton Lecture, and how to attend virtually, HERE. 2022 NHF Annual Meeting Agenda 2021 NHF Annual Meeting Minutes Annual Report The post 2022 NHF Annual Meeting Read-Ahead Materials first appeared on Naval Historical Foundation. View the full article

An excerpt from our Second Saturday: Run Silent, Run Deep, featuring takeaways on leadership in the Silent Service from the novel. View our full Second Saturday Webinar HERE. The post Blog first appeared on Naval Historical Foundation. View the full article

The Navy Museum will serve as the backdrop for an afternoon seminar followed by a reception as the NHF commemorates the 40th anniversary of the largest naval combat confrontation in the post-World War II era. With the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (ex-USS Phoenix) torpedoed on 2 May 1982, and the HMS Sheffield crippled two days later, this is an appropriate time to mark the occasion with presentations capturing various aspects of the fight for sea control around this South Atlantic island group. Featuring Director of Naval History Rear Adm. Sam Cox; Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, and former DoD officials Norman Polmar and Dov Zakheim. Sabastian Bruns with…

By F.H. McCullough, III INTRODUCTION Fifty years ago, in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the evening of May 8, 1972, offshore North Vietnam, a U.S. Navy SH-3 Sea King helicopter was making its approach to the U.S. Navy’s guided-missile light cruiser USS Providence (CLG-6), flagship of RADM Rembrandt C. Robinson, USN, the Commander (i.e., CTG) of various naval surface ships afloat constituting task groups TG70.8 and TG77.7. The helo was returning from a conference aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43) where senior officers met with the Commander of the US 7th Fleet and others at the onset of a major escalation of the Vietnam War. USS Providence (CLG-6…

By David F. Winkler, Ph.D. Staff Historian On October 17, 1922, America’s first carrier, USS Langley held a fixed position in the York River as preparations proceeded for a historic milestone. Naval Aviator No. 41, Lt. Virgil “Squash” Griffin, climbed into a cockpit of a VE-7SF biplane (BuNo. A-5932). As Griffin prepared for takeoff, winches on the stern pulled and released lines to the aft anchor buoys to adjust the ship’s heading into the wind. Griffin, who would later earn the nickname “You All” Griffin by Langley’s crew during his XO tour a decade later thanks to his Alabama drawl, earned his “Squash” moniker at the U.S. Naval Academy as a member of the Class …

Reviewed by Nicholas M. Anthony Jr., Ph.D., USA (Ret.) The Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic Marcus Tullius Cicero stated that “Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.” In his first book, A Forgotten Campaign: The British Armed Forces in France 1940, From Dunkirk to the Armistice, British military historian and civil-military relations specialist Paul Fantom magnificently sets the record straight regarding the proverbial “rest of the story” concerning what happened after the much appreciated and highly publicized “Miracle of Dunkirk.” A plethora of boo…