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Fifth ship of the Essex-class CVs. Fifth ship named for Benjamin Franklin… The date – 19 March 1945. Area of operations – fifty miles off the coast of Japan. Flight ops have been underway since before dawn, beginning with a strike against Honshu and another against shipping in Kobe harbor. On…
RIP: Daniel Weitzenfeld, 90
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…
Speaking of Ethos and Fighting Spirit…
Try eleven battle stars in eleven years… Endicott Get your own at Scribd or explore others: History Military/War korea WWII (h/t CO, USS Higgins (DDG 76) )
Postcards from Deployment
As some of you are aware, Southern Air Pirate has departed on his 6-month deployment and so postings on his site may be few/far between due to bandwidth and PC access. We’ve offered our services as an intermediary – and so this first missive (actually a combination of two) from SAP. Haze grey and underway…
“If there are enough shovels to go around…”
“…everybody’s going to make it.” – Thomas K. Jones, 1982 Counterveil vs. Countervalue… Decapitating strikes… Winning a protracted nuclear war… Nuclear calculus… These, and other topics were points of not just mere discussion, but deep, serious study and analysis in the early 1980’s by, among others, a small cohort of graduate students at the Naval…
SECDEF and the Doctrine of Sufficiency
These past few weeks SECDEF Gates has turned to the perennial question of “how much is enough?’ and in the process, has on a couple of occasions called out Navy for its overwhelming capacity in certain areas – subs and aircraft carriers immediately come to mind. That carriers get highlighted is not surprising – they…