So, you’ve been procrastinating deliberative in filing taxes this year and need a break in working over the numbers? Minimize the tax program and click on the pic below to see the video, from the cockpit, of last week’s memorial flyover…
…OK, break’s over – back on your heads.
*But were afraid to ask Available now via the Newport Papers online – print version still TBD. Be forewarned, this is a huge document (34M worth) and will take a while to download. This is an outstanding work by Dr. Hattendorf and Peter Swartz and has been long in the birthing process. It is the…
Sixty-seven years ago… Day 1 – “Scratch One Flattop!”: The first day of the carrier battle of Coral Sea, 7 May 1942, saw the Americans searching for carriers they knew were present and the Japanese looking for ones they feared might be in the area. (more at NHHC) Day 2: We lose USS Lexington: ….
Project Valour-IT Update: Army is getting crabby – and too close for comfort. Come on Navy – let’s show ’em the passing game… 20 Nov 1933: Lieutenant Commander T. G. W. Settle and Major Chester L. Fordney, USMC, flying a 600,000 cubic foot free balloon, set a world’s altitude record of 61,237 feet in a…
Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this…
Remember 9/11? Remember the loss of the WTC and 2,750 workers, firemen, policemen and first responders? Remember how in the shattered concrete and twisted steel of the aftermath we swore to rebuild in the same place something that would defy the evil that brought the towers down? And how we called it Freedom Tower? Well,…
