Events of 8 May 1942 Before dawn on 8 May, both the Japanese and the American carriers sent out scouts to locate their opponents. These made contact a few hours later, by which time the Japanese already had their strike planes in the air. The U.S. carriers launched theirs’ soon after 9AM,…
First, go over to EagleSpeak and read this very excellent account of how the US came to be involved in the Pacific to begin with. Then come back for the Battle of the Coral Sea. – SJS Battle of the Coral Sea, 7-8 May 1942 –The Events of 7 May 1942 …
Well — nothing like a full afternoon/evening spent upgrading an OS to make your day complete – not. So far, looks like the it is working (fingers crossed). Milblog conference was great – more for the sidebars than some of the panels. It was well worth the time/$’s to finally meet in person those with…
Busy shoveling out the “in” boxes at work and attending the Milblogging conference this weekend – so, we’re going to take a hiatus for Flightdeck Friday today (if you haven’t yet, scroll down and read the write-up on Wally Schirra – next week’s subject is prominently featured therein). In the meantime, the ‘phibian has an…
“Are you a turtle?” I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.- Wally Schirra Born into an aviator family (his father had gone to Canada during WW1 to earn his wings and his mom…
… on the road to hell. Comes this word (via B5): The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the…
Recalling YHS’ recent forays on commercial air: OK Dads, how many of you have found yourself in this position: and one for the Moms out there too…
Received this example of correspondence between a couple of warriors from a friend the other day and thought it might bring a smile. Somehow, one supposes the chance of similar contemporary correspondence making the rounds 40+ years from today would be doubtful…
Catching up from last week – Thursday another test of the AEGIS BMD system was successfully completed with the conclusion of FTM-11 off Hawaii. A test of the AEGIS BMD 3.6, it was a simultaneous shot against a representative SRBM target with a SM-3 Blk 1a with a simultaneous shot against a cruise missile threat…
