Military History

U.S. Navy Destroyers: Evolving and Engaged (Defense Media Network)

From BBC News "The atomic bomb detonated in the New Mexico desert at 05:29:45 local time on 16 July, 1945, "lit up the entire world". That is how Private Daniel Yearout, one of the few remaining eyewitnesses some 60 years on, recalls the morning the powers of the atom were first unleashed." ... Read the complete article at the link above.

Of probable interest (see the author's CV). Including moves in and out Black Sea, actually a very cool pastime to see and identify warships in and out!: http://turkishnavy.net/about-me/

From BBC News 11 March 1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader There is a new man in charge at the Kremlin - Mikhail Gorbachev has taken over following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Chernenko, 73, died yesterday after a long illness - but his death was only announced to the Soviet people this morning. Sombre music preceded the news on radio and television and scheduled programmes were cancelled. The speed of naming of his successor - at 54 the youngest man to take over as general secretary of the Soviet communist party - has taken people by surprise. More here

Casual finding looking for data, site about the Spanish Civil War warships: http://www.kbismarck.com/mgl/spanishcivwar.htm

Discovered a few minutes ago, a British warships photo collection (only 1980s?) by Beareye2010, with interesting comments, some 2297 photos !!!: http://www.flickr.com/photos/50256734@N05/with/5476848243/#photo_5476848243

A site with very interesting data of Decca Plessey naval radars and related info: http://woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/decca-legacy/chapter10.php#10.1

From Air Force Times Doolittle Raiders mark 65th anniversary The Associated Press Posted : Monday Apr 16, 2007 7:00:50 EDT SAN ANTONIO — A band of aging survivors of the Doolittle Raiders will gather in San Antonio this week to celebrate the 65th anniversary of their famed World War II bombing raid on Japan. Seven survivors of the April 18, 1942, raid are expected to attend the five-day reunion, which starts Tuesday. Of the 80 pilots and crewmen who took part, 14 are still alive. Lt. Col. James Doolittle led the 16 B-25B Mitchell bombers that embarked from the aircraft carrier Hornet on a risky mission that was credited with buoying American spirits in t…

From the Spring 2011 issue of US Naval War College Review: Hiding in Plain Sight: the US Navy and Dispersed Operations under EMCON, 1956-72 (PDF) This is a subject to which I think most if not all Harpoon players can relate: trying to hide your carrier group (or for that matter, any naval formation) from the enemy.

Disbanded in 1992, but reactivated in 2015. Worth of research, perhaps in this Russian Wikipedia article we could find force composition: Link

Scientists solve mystery of US Civil War submarine (Nature) Is it a travesty to spend so much time, money and energy on this symbol of the Confederacy?

Reviewed by LtCol Robert Weingart, USMC In Modern USMC Air Power Joe Copalman offers a comprehensive overview of the platforms and units of Marine aviation as well as an array of stories and vignettes from the past twenty years of continuous combat operations. Mr. Copalman is a freelance writer and photojournalist whose work has appeared in numerous print and online aviation journals; this is his first book. As the author points out in his introduction, this book comes at a time of momentous change for Marine aviation. Every platform in service on September 11th, 2001, has been or is in the process of being replaced by a new generation of aircraft. At the same tim…

From Air Force Times Son of pilot Powers promoting Cold War history By Regina Lee - The Washington Times via AP Posted : Sunday Jul 15, 2007 17:39:55 EDT WASHINGTON — The 63-foot U-2 spy plane suspended from the ceiling of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is a constant reminder to Francis Gary Powers Jr. of his educational mission. The son of a historic U-2 pilot shot down over Russia, Powers has worked for 11 years to keep the history of the era that spawned the reconnaissance plane alive. Pondering the relic, which was used to photograph Russian facilities and was one of several planes his father flew, he says its work was instrumental in en…

Book review: American Ulysses: The Rehabilitation of an American Hero (Strategy Bridge) Sounds like a good summer read. On the list it goes ...

We are joined this month by The Honorable Steven Honigman, Geoffrey Beaumont, the son of artist Arthur Beaumont, and Navy Art curator, Gale Munro. Join us as we discuss the important work of Navy painter Arthur Beaumont. The post Blog first appeared on Naval Historical Foundation. View the full article

From Navy Times Pearl Harbor recalled, 66 years later By Audrey McAvoy - The Associated Press Posted : Friday Dec 7, 2007 11:43:41 EST HONOLULU — Everett Hyland was ferrying ammunition to an anti-aircraft gun aboard the battleship Pennsylvania on Dec. 7, 1941, when a bomb hit, throwing him down. “I never heard anything. The only thing I knew, I was flat on my face and my arms were extended in front of me and they were all purple and bleeding,” Hyland said. “I ended up pretty well banged up.” On Friday, Hyland was to join some 50 survivors and hundreds more family members and officials at a Pearl Harbor pier overlooking the USS Arizona Memorial to honor t…

In 1905, Japanese Battleships Pulverized a Russian Fleet (War is Boring) I recently convinced my oldest daughter to write a paper about the Battle of Tsushima for a college history course. She received an 'A'.

Reviewed by David F. Winkler, Ph.D. Paul Stillwell has filled one of the remaining voids in the bibliographic study of America’s World War II naval leadership with his well-written narrative of Vice Adm. Willis A. “Ching” Lee who was entrusted with command of the American battleline during the Pacific war against Japan. Such a position, merely a decade earlier, would have placed him at the pantheon of American naval leadership during the war. Yet with aircraft carriers supplanting battleships as the primary capital ship in the wake of Pearl Harbor, the big-gun combatants would be relegated to shore bombardment and fleet air defense duties. There were some not…

A lengthy, informative and photo rich article regarding the ill fated MV Atlantic Conveyor here.

http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2015/mdn-dnd/D4-7-5-2015-eng.pdf