Military History

Guadalcanal Quintet (Naval History, October 2021) "From August to November 1942, a series of hard-fought nighttime naval battles punctuated the struggle for the crucial foothold in the Solomon Islands."

The Silent Hunter (please check out my other stuff)

Many data, interesting Harrier researchs: http://www.harrier.org.uk/history/history_production.htm

From Air Force Magazine, June 2010 In 1966, Israel got its hands on a MiG-21, with major benefits for itself and the US Air Force. Click the link for more ...

Helicopter Museum at Buckeburg, centered on German types: http://www.hubschraubermuseum.de/exponate/

I was looking for some info randomly on Op Dingo in Rhodesia and camed across this, quite a good and lengthy writing on helicopter warfare in Rhodesia. I found it interesting. http://www.jrtwood.com/article_fireforce.asp

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

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.

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

Courtesy of CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol2no1/html/v02i1a06p_0001.htm

History of the Russian Nuclear Weapon Program (Los Alamos National Lab, via Federation of American Scientists) Large (107 pages) PDF file, with plenty of images.

The last Swedish ASW helicopters were retired in 2011, the events of October 2014 with mysterious submarines in Swedish waters showed the lack of a critical capability for a long time, as the future NFH90 ASW service entry is delayed probably to 2018-2020 (also Sweden losed retiring these HKP-4 a critical wood wildfire fighting asset). The HKP-4 will be ever worth of remembering (in Swedish): http://navyskipper.blogspot.com.es/2012/01/var-har-forsvarsmaktens-hkp-4-tagit.html

Kind of like an ugly duckling I guess, but interesting https://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-albatross-i

From HMAS Sydney Commission of Inquiry 12 January 2009 HMAS SYDNEY Commission of Inquiry On 19 November 1941, the Royal Australian Navy Modified Leander Class light cruiser HMAS SYDNEY II, en route to Fremantle, intercepted the disguised German raider the HSK KORMORAN about 100 nautical miles west of Steep Point off the coast of Western Australia. In the ensuing battle, HMAS SYDNEY was sunk with the loss of her entire crew of 645 men. The HSK KORMORAN was subsequently scuttled with the loss of 81 lives. Following the discovery of the wrecks of HMAS SYDNEY and HSK KORMORAN by The Finding Sydney Foundation in March 2008, the Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chie…

Probable scenario fodder, but I don't see how to build it ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9602103/HMS-Conquerors-biggest-secret-a-raid-on-Russia.html

From The Telegraph [excerpt]

Very detailed and colourful career of HMS Valiant in WWII, included operations, other ships in the operations, and even coordinates of the operations, in the great Naval History-Net website: http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-01BB-Valiant.htm

Hono­lulu after Pearl Harbor: A report published for the first time, 71 years later (Washington Post)

Two items stand out in naval history on today's date. First, the destruction of the Royal Navy's battlecruiser HMS Hood at the hands of the Nazi battleship Bismarck, on 24 May 1941. And, the rescue of 33 sailors from the sunken USS Squalus, on 24 May 1939:

How A British Submarine Spent Hours Under A Russian Aircraft Carrier (The War Zone, 11 January 2023)