WEDNESDAY, 3 JUNE 1942 ALASKA: In an attempt to divert forces from the Midway area, a Japanese carrier-based bombers and fighters bomb and strafe Ft Mears and Dutch Harbor in several waves inflicting little damage but killing 52 US personnel. P-40s from Cold Bay trying to intercept them arrive 10 minutes after the last attack…
Truly a watershed event – story here.
Well, Repair 5 reports fire is out, the space de-watered and all gear re-stowed after this weekend’s, um, issues. You will notice (we hope) that the original theme is back, with a few fine-tuning tweaks and we appear to be OPS normal, for now… – SJS
SJS, As I write this we are in the process of pulling pier side to a major US Naval Base on the Eastern seaboard. My squadron is being offloaded here and on the way home to our families and loved ones. At the same time we are on loading about 1500 tigers. A tiger is…
Well, sometime last evening Finagle’s Law was operationalized and our Cutline theme got munged. Whether it was malicious or not remains TBD (examination of the logs tends toward the former). So, for now, we’ll run with WordPress’ “Classic” theme until we can figure out what went wrong. It will mean some earlier posts are a…
