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– SJS
Listen as you tread the decks on the mid-watch, or swing at anchor on a foggy morn – listen and you can hear the voices of those who went before us: Douglas TBD-1 Devastators of Torpedo Six (USS Enterprise) off Hawaii for battle fleet exercises (1941) What lessons are being taught? What wisdom passed? Are…
19 January 1920: The Commandant NAS Pensacola reported that in the future no student would be designated a Naval Aviator or given a certificate of qualification as a Navy Air Pilot unless he could send and receive 20 words a minute on radio telegraph. (ed. Oh how the times have changed – eh? – SJS)…
Operation Highjump–Air operations in the Antarctic ended. From 24 December 1946, six PBM’s, based on seaplane tenders, operated in the open seas around the continent of Antarctica, and from 9 February, six R4D’s operated ashore from the airstrip at Little America. Together these aircraft logged 650 hours on photographic mapping flights covering 1,500,000 square miles…
Let’s see: – Political leaders supporting rapid growth of new lending institutions issuing mortgages for municipal and residential construction? Check – Mortgages easier than ever to obtain with comensurate building boom? Check – Skyrocketing land values with exponential speculation? Check – Borrowers assuming more credit with deceasing ability to pay it off? Check – Appearance…
NEWS RELEASES from the United States Department of Defense No. 672-07 IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 30, 2007 The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military…
Then:  (CIA A-12 Recce mission on 26 January) Now: Taedong River, Pyongyang, North Korea ( 38°59’27.83″N x 125°43’32.13″E) Remember: Remember: Read the story here, here or here. A clearly provactive and illegal hijacking on the high seas by the North Koreans – and compounded by inexplicably poor contingency planning on the part of US…
