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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Postcards From Deployment — Oh Those Cruise Mustaches!

BySteeljawscribe 10 March 2010

Well, it’s been a short piece since we last heard from our deployed correspondent, Charles, and that from Hong Kong.Â He checks in today (well, actually a couple days ago but we’ve been a mite bit overtasked at the day job of late.. Yeah, yeah, yeah — whine, whine….) with another underway note: SJS, So…

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Happy Independence Day America!

BySteeljawscribe 4 July 2016

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her.—Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart….

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Flightdeck Friday – Independence Day Edition

BySteeljawscribe 4 July 2013

So yes, it’s not really Friday by the calendar – but that hasn’t stopped us before.Â For your consideration an interesting take on this Independence Day of Americans flying a British fighter for recce missions deep into Germany, sans armor (or armour if you please) and guns, loaded with gas and cameras.Â Big cameras (for…

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Programming Alert: “Air Group 16 – We Came to Remember”

BySteeljawscribe 26 May 200728 March 2010

Air date: Sunday, 27 May 2007 @ 2130 on your local PBS station “Air Group 16: We Came To Remember” tells the story of the last reunion of Air Group 16 — the pilots, radiomen and gunners who served on the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the Pacific in World War II. The film follows…

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USS Franklin (CV-13) Reunion, 18-21 Mar 2010

BySteeljawscribe 23 February 201023 February 2010

Fifth ship of the Essex class — fifth ship to bear Benjamin Franklin’s name… On the 19th of March, 1945, her crew would write a story for the ages as they were tested in the crucible. Today, like so many of their generation, the already small band of survivors of that day continue to dwindle….

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Essential References (Nuclear)

BySteeljawscribe 19 June 2007

There are any number of websites accessible today on nuclear matters – technical, strategy, war fighting. For those of us who started our research/studies some few decades ago, it seems like an embarrassment of riches. We had to do the hard work – parsing reams of Congressional testimony, track down obscure references and deal with…

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