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A Memorial Day Compendium – 2015 Edition
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us…
I Learned About Flying…From Reading About This
While “Fate is the Hunter†ought to be required reading for any and all associated with flying of any type, Chp 3, “The Seasoning†is particularly apropos. Start at pg. 79 if you like, or here: “I stop pumping, tune the D.F.’s radio to Knoxville frequency, and reach for the loop crank. In doing so…
ex-USS Horne (CG-30): More Fodder for RIMPAC ’08
Like the ex-USS Davd R. Ray (DD-971) reported on yesterday, The Horne is also slated to be used as a target for the upcoming RIMPAC ’08 exercise. Fifth ship of the Belknap-class and named for the VCNO during most of WWII, ADM Fredrick J. Horne, she was commissioned 15 April 1967 with then-CAPT Stansfield Turner…
Postcards: 14 January 1990
A feature wherein YHS dips into his photo-locker of some 40+ years. TFOA: Things Falling Off Aircraft Spend enough time in aviation and sooner or later you are going to lose something — a refueling access panel, landing gear door, maybe a drop tank or MER. Other than the odd TWA (Trailing Wire Antenna) drogue…
65th Anniversary of Leyte Gulf
With a woosh and a crack the whip played its tune… “Ok! Focus!!!” she commanded in menacing tones, “This is not about SJS’s conscripts. This is about me. I am looking bad on Twitter. The Army killed on the D-Day commemorations and we have bupkis going here!” Again the whip played its stinging dance on…
Generations
Call this one – “Generations.” From the left — my Grandpa (father’s side), first generation American of German descent who left his home in Illinois to join the Army and head off to the War to End All Wars, serving in France with the AEF. Next my Grandpa Jack – Army, Signal Corps who served…