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From The Telegraph [excerpt]

A very detailed site about the F-104 Starfighter on German service, mostly in German language: http://www.rolfferch.de/F104G/html/beladeschema.html

Rescued from a farm in Downsview, Ontario, Canada, and restored from this: To this:

This article appeared in the August 1981 issue of Air Force Magazine, little more than a month after the Israeli strike on Osirak in June of that year. http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1981/August%201981/0881osirak.aspx I thought it might be an interesting read for you, and to consider in light of current conjecture about the possibility of a repeat event in the region.

From Air Force Magazine archives Soviet Aerospace Almanac, 1987 http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/1987/March%201987/0387soviet.pdf Soviet Aerospace Almanac, 1986 http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Magazine%20Documents/1986/March%201986/0386soviet.pdf

If you can escape the agenda; here is a decent resource for understanding the various ballistic missile types the various nations of the world have. http://www.missilethreat.com/missilesoftheworld/pageID.134/default.asp

From Air Force Magazine, July 2012 issue [excerpt]

From http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2012/September%202012/0912kargil.aspx [excerpt]

Hi guys, Perhaps in either shore leave or here in Military History you can create a "Currently Reading" subfolder where participants can enter what they are reading, how it relates to Harpoon, Naval Warfare, Warfare, or History in general. I just finished a very interesting book on the First Battle of the Marne by Robert B. Asprey, and am currently reading From Normandy to the Ruhr: With the 116th Panzer Division in World War II by Heinz Günther Guderian.

http://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/potomacfever-205x300.jpgBy J. William Middendorf II, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD (2011), 213 pages. Reviewed by Captain Roger F. Jones, USN (Ret) J. William Middendorf II was an undergraduate at Harvard when World War II began; he soon signed up for the Navy V-12 program and then shifted to NROTC (which took him to Holy Cross). He received his degree – and commission – and was called to active duty in mid-l945, as the war was winding down. A year later, after a scary voyage on an LCS from Shanghai to San Francisco, Middendorf was mustered out, completed his Harvard education, and then embarked on a long and …

Back from a couple weeks of holiday, and this local news story caught my eye ... U-boat search in Labrador river

Just finished reading Steve Davies' Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs (Osprey Publishing, 2008); an account of the CONSTANT PEG programme that used MiG-17s, 21s and 23s as Aggressor adversaries to help in the training of US aircrew. A highly interesting read, which illuminates an interesting aspect of the Cold War. Anyone else here read it?

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A pair of interesting links, finded when I was looking for KDX (Japanese MAD, operative in 8/1944 in Mavis and perhaps Nell): http://enokie.ddo.jp/enokiepisode/E-ASW.htm A curious video, showing SS radar in Aichi E13A Jake:

http://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Hendrix-Roosevelt-195x300.jpgBy Henry J. Hendrix, Naval Institute Press (Annapolis, MD), 2009. Reviewed by Thomas P. Ostrom Captain Henry J. Hendrix, USN brings an impressive background of naval professionalism and scholarly credentials to the task of writing this history of President Theodore Roosevelt (TR) and the 14-month global cruise of the Great White Fleet of U.S. battleships named after U.S. states, and assorted auxiliary vessels in 1907-1909. The author, a 20-year veteran at the time of his book’s publication, performed six overseas deployments, studied at the Naval Postgraduate School, and earned a Ph.D. f…

From Globe and Mail, 6 June 2012 High resolution aerial images from WWII Normandy beaches, Pegasus bridge, and others, with zoom features.

From Air Force Magazine, July 2012 issue [excerpt]

Interesting page full of rare data linked to other Israeli UAVs in the chaotic site Israeli-Weapons (if you accede from the front page, you obtains almost nothing ... ): http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/air...eron/Heron.html

http://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DSC_6693-300x200.jpgADM James Holloway, USN (Ret) tells the story of Operation Lion’s Den The Naval Historical Foundation 2012 Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, 23 June, and featured the debut of a brand new exhibit for the Cold War Gallery. Admiral James Holloway, USN (Ret), christened the new exhibit with a riveting firsthand account of the 1972 battle in Haiphong Harbor that is memorialized in the new “Into the Lion’s Den” exhibit. The meeting began with the vote for a new President, RADM John T. Mitchell, USN (Ret). RADM Mitchell succeeds VADM Robert Dunn, USN (Ret), who served in the position for 14 years and…

A simply and useful directory of military helicopters: http://www.groundsystems-index.com/images/...megsi/MHH08.pdf