Admin Notes

Midway POSTEX: Southern Air Pirate passes a couple of links related to the Battle of Midway well worth tucking into your “Favorites” folders.  Some good, rare and poignant imagery at those sites.  See especially the color series on VT-8 and what is probably the last photo of VT-8 as a squadron joining up overhead to push out for that morning’s strike against the Japanese CV’s.

New Pages: A couple of new pages have been added (check up in the title bar) – one page has the collection of 9/11-related posts and the other the Reflections series:

• 9/11 Remembered: This blog is a participant in the 2996 Project.  What’s that (you may well ask)?  This is a project that brought 2996+ bloggers together on the 5th anniversary of the attacks on 9/11 wherein each blog hosted a tribute to a victim of those attacks – putting more than a face to the name as it were.  Since YHS was present in the Pentagon, witnessed the attack and in the aftermath, lost many shipmates and friends (including most of one of my three branches), you will find some extended posts that include our losses on the Navy staff from N3N5 and N513 as well as a first hand account of that day.
• Reflections: Reflections are a series of posts about – well, about life as encountered and savoured by your humble scribe.  Many of the entries have a distinct theme of naval aviation because for the better part of a quarter century – that’s what YHS was involved in.  As with anything else though, there are moments to stop, sniff the roses and treat the occasional bee sting that results.  Some of that will be found there as well.  Where to start? Save for those marked “Part I, etc.” jump in where you feel comfortable and enjoy.