Heroic Life – A Quiet Passing

BySteeljawscribe 14 October 200728 March 2010

Noted Flying Tiger, former Naval Aviator, Army Air Corps and USAF Pilot, and combat ace Hill passed away this past Thursday at the age of 92. Lex has the full account here. A life filled with accomplishments in service to his country and to a people facing a vicious onslaught, he epitomized the American volunteer spirit that saw private citizens who sought to bring their talents and spirit to the fight against tyranny while their home country pondered what course to take. Truly the ‘Eye of the Tiger’ long before Hollywood dreamed up the phrase…

Rest easy as you join your valiant brethern

‘Tis evening on the moorland free,
The starlit wave is still:
Home is the sailor from the sea,
The hunter from the hill.

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The 11th Hour, of the 11th Day, of the 11th Month – When the Guns Fell Silent

BySteeljawscribe 11 November 201011 November 2010

At the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month…the guns fell silent along what was known then as the Western Front as the Allies and Germany observed the agreement to end this “War to End All Wars.” While fighting continued sporadically elsewhere, in what were fast becoming the former empires of Russia…

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“We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident…”

BySteeljawscribe 4 July 20075 July 2007

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which…

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Flightdeck Friday: Naval Air and D-Day – 6 Jun 44

BySteeljawscribe 6 June 20085 June 2008

So – wrapping up our TDY this week and hopping the (ugh) red-eye back to Occupied Territory for to make it back for a libs this weekend before back to the grind Monday. While we’ve been concentrating on Midway this past week, there is this other event over in the ETO that took place in…

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The Doolittle Raid – 70 Years Later: Naval Officers and Planning

BySteeljawscribe 17 April 201218 April 2015

Here and elsewhere much has been written of the Doolittle raid, from the bookstand to Hollywood and the curriculum of War Colleges the world over. Coming fast on the heels of the stunning blows barely four months prior a malevolent arc of destruction and defeat stretching from Pearl Harbor back across the Pacific to…

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A Whale Goes to Sea – UPDATED

BySteeljawscribe 27 May 200927 May 2009

Ranger 07 is now at it’s temporary home on the air station side of NS Norfolk (Chambers Field).Â Some of us remember back to when VAQ-33 was onboard then-NAS Norfolk and shared hangar and flight line space with VAW (1979).Â In the Firebird’s inventory at the time, besides an EC-121, where a number of EA-3…

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Why We Write…

BySteeljawscribe 12 November 2008

Every so often we receive a note via the comments section that sort of underscores our meager efforts – sometimes its a nugget of info not found elsewhere, a tip or lead that takes us on a new path and sometimes we connect with those whose forebears had a role in the history of which…

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