Saturday Matinee: Rings Around Rabaul

BySteeljawscribe 27 June 200927 June 2009

Setting the stage for the Solomon Islands Campaign project which kicks off next month…and what better way than with the classic, Victory at Sea:

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Flightdeck Friday Special — Midway & Marauders: A Shore-Based Strike POV

BySteeljawscribe 5 June 20116 June 2015

While Midway was not the combat debut of the B-26 Marauder (that was left to B-26’s of the 22nd Bombardment Group launching attacks against Rabaul two months earlier), Midway was nonetheless the most auspicious of the Marauder’s early actions. Originating from a 1939 Army Air Corps specification for a twin-engined medium bomber (Circular Proposal 39-640),…

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First AEGIS-Class Sunk (ex-USS Valley Forge CG-50)

BySteeljawscribe 27 November 200628 February 2010

The first Navy Aegis ship to be sent to Davey Jonesâ€™ locker now rests on the bottom of the Pacific, done in by a combination of missiles and gunfire. The decommissioned cruiser Valley Forge was sunk as part of a Nov. 2 target practice on a test range near Kauai, Hawaii, according to the U.S….

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Sixty-two Years Ago Today…

BySteeljawscribe 6 August 20076 August 2007

08:16 Local, 6 August 1945

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RIP: Daniel Weitzenfeld, 90

BySteeljawscribe 14 May 200830 March 2010

Who was Daniel Weitzenfeld? If you have anything to do with Naval Aviation, you should be thankful for this: epecially in light of the way things used to be: From the Washington Post: Daniel Weitzenfeld, 90; Navy Innovator Tuesday, May 13, 2008; Page B08 Daniel Kehr Weitzenfeld, 90, a retired Navy rear admiral who was…

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Remembering Columbia: 1 February 2003

BySteeljawscribe 1 February 20085 December 2009

On February 4, 2003 President George W. Bush delivered the following memorial speech at the Memorial Service in honor of the STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia Crew–David M. Brown, Rick D. Husband, Laurel B. Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, William C. McCool and Ilan Ramon. The service was held at National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s…

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Project Valour-IT: A Little Upfront/Straight Talk. . .

BySteeljawscribe 8 November 2010

8 Nov update: Four days left folks- let’s make it count!! Let’s set aside the competition for a minute and talk straight to the heart of the matter. Fact is, the need is great and growing. Our wounded warriors number in the tens of thousands, the majority of which would benefit in one way or…

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