Military History

Operation Chariot (Defense Media Network)

This is from the same RAF site regarding the 1991 Gulf War. The Battles tab has some interesting graphics and descriptions of movements and engagements. here

There is a book coming out No Higher Honor by Bradley ***ton about the mining of USS Samuel B. Roberts and the subsequent engagements between USN/USMC and Iranian naval, air, and ground forces. The following site here. has an interesting 5 minute video clip from US Navy Public Affairs which aired on 30 April 1988. Also, there is an extensive photo collection. However one sided when looking back on it now, it may be interesting to game out using H4.1 to see the inherent coordination/ROE effects.

After the Summer, I continue researching about 1950s fighting planes. Today I've finded a curious information about the forward deployment of 4xCF-100 Canuck of the Belgian Air Force, with the support of 2xC-119 Flying Boxcar, to the Belgian Congo, after the Leopoldville Riots and a year before his independence and the subsequent Katanga Secession War. It was named Operation Simba. As force deployment was small (and the CF-100 was a all-weather interceptor, similar to the F-89 Scorpion, without specific air-to-ground weapons), but was impressive because his long range and the small size and facilities of the Belgian Air Force (We can remember also other daring operations…

How to no shoot-down a F6F Hellcat drone (By F-89 Scorpion): http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160811-the-runaway-drone-that-caused-a-cold-war-air-battle

Operations Crossbow and Hydra: The Aerial Attacks Against Peenemünde (Defense Media Network)

Operations Prime Chance and Praying Mantis: USSOCOMS First Test of Fire (Defense Media Network)

Interesting, with some links: http://osmaniac.blogspot.com.es/2009/02/bo...rations-in.html

Can anyone identify the particular ship or at least class of the carrier at the following two pictures? Thanks! Sorry about the off topic post, kind of... Tony Image 1 Image 2

With some interesting historical links and articles: http://www.ov-1mohawkassociation.org/home/the-mohawk-storys

Beginning on September 23, 2007 on Public Broadcasting. PBS - The War

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…

The topic of the site is in the same title: http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/sitemappage.htm

Very interesting images of rare missiles and prototypes in a pair of museums, including Bat, Corvus Condor, Oriole, Tacit Rainbow, an Advanced Cruise Missile with counter-rotating prop-fan, Regulus I&II, Petrel, Loon, cluster bombs and others ,interesting aviation photos taked by a one-man museum! :China Lake: http://www.air-and-space.com/20020624%20Ch...gy%20Museum.htm Point Mugu: http://www.air-and-space.com/Pt_Mugu_Comma...ge_Facility.htm Point Mugu Missile Park: http://www.air-and-space.com/Pt%20Mugu%20Missile%20Park.htm

Murphy's Law governing Naval Aviation, "What can go wrong will" and its corollary to the law dictates that whenever something does go wrong, it will always happen at the most inconvienent moment, such as operations on the flight deck at night. paraphrased from Page 42 of MiG Master by Barrett Tillman.

“You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,” said the American colonel. The North Vietnamese colonel pondered this remark a moment. “That may be so,” he replied, “but it is also irrelevant.” —Col Harry G. Summers Jr and Col Tu, April 1975

"Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics". - General Omar Nelson Bradley, US Army

One of the last two surviving rescuers in the 1942 disaster, passes away. Pollux and Truxton rescuer dies (CBC News)

From Daily Mail [excerpt]

A curious and detailed site about scarce known campaings (in Portuguese language): http://www.guerracolonial.org/index.php?content=360