Also note that the cadet officers do not have "US" on their collars in front of the branch insignia. Cadets have been known to wear branch insignia....
This appears to be an inspection of a college officer training unit. The two officers on the left are both regular officers, probably company grade...
M-2 in the aircraft mode could do about 600 rounds a minute . . . P-51H carried 6 M-2s and 1880 rounds . . . 1880 divided by 6 = 313 and 313 divided...
Part B I think folks tend to give the German’s far too much credit or benefit of the doubt. In this case, I’m sorry, but for all their technology,...
A two-parter . . . gotta remember the 10K character limit . . . Part A The Kriegsmarine had no naval doctrine that included carriers. Great...
Send me your contributions and you can be sure they will go to a good cause . . . might as well, you'll get the same result from someone troweling a...
Father – USNA 1938; USN fighter pilot. USS Yorktown (CV-5), Jun 41 - Jun 42, action in early carrier raids and at Coral Sea (VF-42), Midway (VF-3);...
Information, including transcriptions of various reports, and of interest, the interment at the Hampton, Virginia national cemetery of the bodies of...
USN radio-gunners/turret gunners credits for enemy aircraft destroyed, probably destroyed, and damaged Format: Name || Squadron || Destroyed ||...
USN radio-gunners credits for enemy aircraft destroyed, probably destroyed, and damaged Format: Name || Squadron || Destroyed || Probable || Damaged...
USN radio-gunners credits for enemy aircraft destroyed, probably destroyed, and damaged Format: Name || Squadron || Destroyed || Probable ||...
I would imagine that Australian bugle calls, for the most part, are the same as the British . . . common source and all that. However, using the...
Thank you, Peter. I suppose, had I been wrong on my first try, you would have given me a "close, but no cigar."
Except both of them were modified with the "atlantic bow" and flared funnel cap. I suppose the cap had some mechanical value, the modified bow was...
Wait a minute there, you promised to help fund my project. Can't tell you what it is, you know, if I did then I'd have to . . . well, nowadays no...
If you mean US Army, try this. There's been no changes, except perhaps the addition of "Taps," in the last couple of hundred years....
And your original statement was: Well, grabbing a handful of tomes off the shelf that deal specifically with subject of USS Yorktown (CV-5), there...
Yard workers aboard Yorktown as she sailed out of Pearl to her final action is urban legend. Only people aboard were the ships company and the air...
Chamberlin left office in May 1940 and died six months later in November. He died of intestinal cancer which had been found in an operation, looking...
No great science there, the USN developed in the early 1930's (long before the Ju87 was even a gleam in the Luftwaffe's collective eye) a device to...
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