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Welcome Aboard to RememberedSky.com
The latest to join the milbog/aviation ‘verse is RememberedSky.com – brought to you by a former Crusader/Corsair II naval aviator with 170 combat missions in the A-7 over Vietnam while flying off the USS Midway in the 1972-73 timeframe. Consider one of the more recent posts: All days come from one day, as the writer,…
This Date in Naval History: 29-30 May 1942 – Prelude to Midway
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…
Programming Note: “Angle of Attack: How Naval Aviation Changed the Face of War”
In the mail today from ANA: 99 ANAers, Friends of ANA and Naval Aviation, A number of members have asked for more information about The Boeing Company’s great Public Television program, “Angle of Attackâ€. In case you missed it before, the schedule is in the attachment. It is a bit long but you should find…

Battle of Coral Sea (Day 2): Seventy Years Later
Events of 8 May 1942 Scratch One Flattop! by R.G. Smith Before dawn on 8 May, both the Japanese and the American carriers sent out scouts to locate their opponents. These made contact a few hours later, by which time the Japanese already had their strike planes in the air. The U.S. carriers launched their…
Flightdeck Friday: Apollo 11 Forty Years Later
20 July 1969 102:42:08 Duke: Roger. Copy. (Pause) Eagle, Houston. You’re Go for landing. Over. 102:42:13 Armstrong (on-board): Okay. 3000 at 70. 102:42:17 Aldrin: Roger. Understand. Go for landing. 3000 feet. 102:42:19 Duke: Copy. 102:42:19 Aldrin: Program Alarm. (Pause) 1201 102:42:24 Armstrong: 1201. (Pause) (On-board) Okay, 2000 at 50. 102:42:25 Duke: Roger. 1201 alarm. (Pause)…