Memorial Day: 2016
Memorial Day Tribute from Steeljaw Scribe on Vimeo.
Memorial Day Tribute from Steeljaw Scribe on Vimeo.
(*Telegraph from Patrol Wing Two Headquarters warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor) On this, the eve of the 70th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor… Â Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: <– Listen to the speech Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date…
The Board of Directors at the US Naval Institue (of which, full disclosure, I am a Life member) has evidently determined that the “mission statement” that has served the organization for 138 years is in need of an overhaul. Norman Polmar disagrees: I am writing to you–fellow members of the U.S. Naval Institute–to urge that…
Many of us do not know how we will react when suddenly called upon to perform the extraordinary in desperate and lethal conditions. We train and plan, but until the bullet flies or the fire burns close at hand, all we can do is speculate. On the morning of December 7th, 1941 there was no…
Sixty-seven years ago… Day 1 – “Scratch One Flattop!”: The first day of the carrier battle of Coral Sea, 7 May 1942, saw the Americans searching for carriers they knew were present and the Japanese looking for ones they feared might be in the area. (more at NHHC) Day 2: We lose USS Lexington: ….
Much discussion and analysis (or what some try to pass off as analysis) in the ‘verse. Many, most in fact, are focused on the specifics of the failure and potential threat to the US. But there is more to this than meets the (media) eye, so let’s break it down here. We’ll break this into…
Naval Aviators (and by extension, Naval Flight Officers), of the tailhook variety that is, tend to be a peculiar lot. On the one hand we live to fly “at the boat†and yet, the prospect of actually doing anything besides actually aviating is well, anathema – for some. Early on the behavior was learned at…