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Oldest U.S. Carrier Makes Last Voyage

Associated Press | May 23, 2007 TOKYO – The USS Kitty Hawk, the U.S. Navy’s oldest ship in full active service, embarked on its last major maneuvers Wednesday before being decommissioned next year. The 46-year-old vessel – the only American aircraft carrier permanently deployed abroad – eased out of its berth at the U.S. Navy [...] [...]

history lessons

Countdown to Midway: 30 May 1942

EUROPE: Britain launches its first 1000-plane bomber raid – the target: Cologne, Germany. CHINA-BURMA-INDIA: Myitkyina, Burma is again hit by B-17′s. Again no activity is observed and the attacks are discontinued. HQ 7th Bombardment Group transfers from Karachi to Dum-Dum, India. ALASKA: 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 28th Composite Group, based at Elmendorf Field, Anchorage, Territory [...] [...]

MIA

Naval Aviator Missing In Action From the Vietnam War Identified

NEWS RELEASES from the United States Department of Defense No. 672-07 IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 30, 2007 The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military [...] [...]

Missile Defense

Tuesday’s Roll-up of Missile and Other News of Note

I continue to be amazed (though I really shouldn’t by now) at the volume of email that is generated over the course of a generic three-day weekend. This past weekend was no exception to that rule either – especially as the miserly mailbox sizes set by the sysadmins is, well, miserly, one must spend the [...] [...]

history lessons

Countdown to Midway: 28 May 1942

Pacific Theater: ALASKA (11th Air Force): A B-17 flies the first armed reconnaissance from the secretly constructed airfield at Unmak , Aleutian over the Aleutian Chain, but finds no sign of the enemy. XI Fighter Command elements are not deployed at Unmak (P-40′s and P-38′s), Cold Bay (P-40′s), Kodiak (P-39′s), and Elmendorf Field [P-38's and [...] [...]

MIA

Memorial Day Remembrance – Ploesti Raid Aircrewman Returns Home

Others remember too: Lex Calls the Roll Laughing Wolf at Black Five Remembers as does John at Castle Argghhh and Steve at the Woodshed The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced 11 May 2007, that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are [...] [...]

history lessons

Countdown to Midway: 27 May 1942

“The Inland Sea of Japan was still veiled in darkness when the anchorage at Hashirajima began to awaken. On board the aircraft carrier Akagi, white-clad crewmen, ghostly in the deep twilight on the forecastle, began raising the ship’s anchors. The clatter of the capstan was overlain with the bright sound of spraying water as the [...] [...]

history lessons

Programming Alert: “Air Group 16 – We Came to Remember”

Air date: Sunday, 27 May 2007 @ 2130 on your local PBS station “Air Group 16: We Came To Remember” tells the story of the last reunion of Air Group 16 — the pilots, radiomen and gunners who served on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the Pacific in World War II. The film follows [...] [...]

Flightdeck Friday

Flightdeck Friday: Countdown to Midway – IJN Carrier-based Air Order of Battle (AOB)

KIDO BUTAI First Carrier Striking Force VADM Nagumo Chuichi Chief of Staff: RADM Kusaka Ryunosuke Carrier Division 1 – VADM Nagumo Akagi (flagship) – Captain Aoki Taijiro, commanding 18 x A6M2 carrier fighters (aka Zero) 18 x D3A1 carrier bombers (aka Val) 18 x B5N2 carrier attack aircraft (aka Kate) 6 x A6M2 fighters (6th [...] [...]