Military History

Daily Telegraph story

Part 1: Super Hustler Part 2: FISH Part 3: Kingfish Part 4: Beyond Kingfish

Very useful for scenario creation and forces evaluation: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tmib20/109/1

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From Air Force Magazine, March 2012 issue [excerpt]

From Air Force Magazine, March 2012 issue [excerpt]

Navy Times

A very detailed site about past and present Dutch Submarines, I don't remember if previously referenced, but it worth a look: http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/

From Air Force Magazine, Feb 2012 issue [excerpt]

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From Naval Intelligence Professionals [excerpt] Link to the video on Vimeo: Codebreaking Victory: The Midway Battle

The following speech was delivered by RADM Joseph F. Callo, USNR (Ret), to the Society of the War of 1812 in the State of New Jersey and Jamestowne Society at the Nassau Club of Princeton, New Jersey on 29 October 2011. It also appears in the Fall 2011/Winter 2012 issue of “Pull Together.” The bicentennial of the War of 1812 is approaching, and after 200 years it’s time to change how we think about that war. To support that proposal, I’m going to explore what I believe the narrative of that war has been and how we might change it to make it more accurate and more relevant to our own lives and times. http://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/NH-43575-KN-e…

From Last WWI veteran dies [excerpt]

This site has not technical specifications about the ships, but has detailed operative histories: http://www.historicalrfa.org/rfa-sir-galahad-ships-details

http://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CivilWarMonitor-copy-216x300.jpgLast fall we learned about an exciting new publication about the American Civil War. This brand new quarterly magazine is called the Civil War Monitor, and it looks to bridge the gulf between academic and popular history. According to the magazine, it is “devoted to the belief that popular history need not be superficial or sentimental.” It features richly illustrated and originally researched articles written from a variety of angles—military, political, social, and economic—by the country’s leading historians and authors. The first issue was published in September, and is available onl…

Just for jigs, I was thinking about how the Soviet Fleet would have looked around the year 2000 if the USSR had not implosioned, let's say they dismiss Gorbachev (on health grounds evidently...) and manage to ride high oil prices to last one more decade. Would the fleet list look like this: carriers 1 CVN: Ulyanovsk (would have been accepted around 1996-7) 2 CVs: Tbilisi & Riga (no name changes there) 4 CVHs: Kiev, Minsk, Novorossiysk, Baku (presumably Kiev would have been refitted around 1990) cruisers 5 BCGNs: Kirov, Frunze, Kalinin, Yuri Andropov & Kuznetsov (commissioned around 1995) 1 CGN of the Anchar project (name?) 8 CGs of the Slava …

http://www.navyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/DSC_5315-300x200.jpgNHF Executive Director Captain Charles T. Creekman, USN (Ret), and Tonya Simpson from the Navy Department Library pose with one of the recently acquired Afghan war books The Naval Historical Foundation is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of three vintage 19th century books for the Navy Department Library. If you recall in November, NHF made an appeal, called “Bucks for Books,” to raise funds for the acquisition of these books for the Library. A number of generous donors stepped forward, and over $2200 was raised. Three books (one of which is a two-volume set) were acquired by NHF, and…

http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1934980226&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=navalhistofou-20&ServiceVersion=20070822http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=navalhistofou-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1934980226 By Del Staecker, Cable Publishing, Brule, WI, (2009). Reviewed by Charles H. Bogart The author is the son of Irvin H. Staecker who served on board the Lady Gangster from 1941 to 1945. The Lady Gangster was the crew’s name for USS Fuller (APA 6). The ship’s nickname developed from the fact that many of the ship’s first crew were naval reservists from Chicago, Illinois. Fuller started life in 1919 as …

http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1934980226&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=navalhistofou-20&ServiceVersion=20070822http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=navalhistofou-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1934980226 By Del Staecker, Cable Publishing, Brule, WI, (2009). Reviewed by Charles H. Bogart The author is the son of Irvin H. Staecker who served on board the Lady Gangster from 1941 to 1945. The Lady Gangster was the crew’s name for USS Fuller (APA 6). The ship’s nickname developed from the fact that many of the ship’s first crew were naval reservists from Chicago, Illinois. Fuller started life in 1919 as …

Research on the CSS Hunley proceeds in Charleston, CS. Picture attached. I served on the submarine tender named for the submarine, in Scotland and the US (from 1986 to 1989). FWFS, Greg Emerson, DM1(SW), USN Renton, WA, USA