Military History

From Air Force Times [excerpt]

A recopilation of personal pictures almost without comments, some of rare subjects. The ship motives are scarce, but a lot of other stuff: http://www.primeportal.net/the_dockyards.htm

I reference this book for sake of clarification and to prevent erroneous purchases. I suppose the book is the result of a mainstream author/journalist writing about a subject she ignores previously, and write about it as she was the first person in writting about it or having original ideas/aportations about the matter (As analogy, the fans of Science-Fiction, and they are a lot in Harpgamer, know clearly the very bad results of mainstream authors writing "Science-Fiction" without knowledge of the previously writted ideas and conventions in the genre): http://www.npr.org/2011/05/17/136356848/ar...fos-or-the-ussr As examples: - The Horten brothers developing Flying Sauc…

PT boat officers hold last reunion By Mary Foster - The Associated Press Posted : Sunday Apr 22, 2007 11:04:51 EDT NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It was the end of the line for the battered hulk of a PT boat at New Orleans’ National World War II museum, and an appropriate setting for the final reunion of a group of veterans who served on such vessels. The 16 elderly survivors — down from 21 last year — of Peter Tare, Inc., an organization for former officers of PT boats, lined up next to the boat Friday, taking one last sail down memory lane. For them, World War II is really almost over now. “It’s sort of pitiful the way the crowd has dwindled,” said William Payn…

Badass of the week: Pte Leo Major Distinguished Combat Medals in two wars ... impressive!

'WWIII Queen's speech' script revealed (BBC News) "Excuse me, Your Highness, but you have four minutes to finish up ..."

Queenfish: A cold war tale By William J. Broad Published: March 18, 2008 International Herald Tribune Atop the globe, the icy surface of the Arctic Ocean has remained relatively peaceful. But its depths have boiled with intrigue, no more so than in the cold war. Although the superpowers planned to turn those depths into an inferno of exploding torpedoes and rising missiles, the brotherhood of submariners — the silent service, both Russian and American — has worked hard over the decades to keep the particulars of those plans hush-hush. Now, a few secrets are spilling through a crack in the wall of silence, revealing some of the science and spying that went i…

Fixed US radars: http://www.radomes.org/museum/ Mobile US radars: http://www.mobileradar.org/radar_descptn_1.html http://www.mobileradar.org/radar_descptn_2.html http://www.mobileradar.org/radar_descptn_3.html

I think it was cited sometimes, but I'm not sure. A website with radar basics and details of many concrete radar types, WWII, Cold War and present times: http://www.radartutorial.eu/19.kartei/karte405.en.html

Persuant to the low altitude bombing discussion Brad and I have had down in the H4 folder regarding RN/RAF low level bombing techniques and tactics, I stumbled across this RAF History Site: here The Day By Day (by day, by day ) and Background tabs have some interesting information.

Daily Telegraph story

Check out this BBC article here.

Not very structured, but perhaps this site will improve in the future: http://www.rb-29.net/

Interesting site about the Cold War use of RB-29 in intelligence missions: http://www.rb-29.net http://www.rb-29.net/HTML/77ColdWarStory/03.01anscall.htm

Story from The Aviationist

Reagan, Reykjavik, and strategic imagination (Foreign Policy)

Great sailor, also plastic kit and railway modeller, and scenario fodder: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11393406/Rear-Admiral-David-Cooke-obituary.html

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.

Remember Triton: Americas Pioneer Nuke Sub (War is Boring blog)

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